[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: jonah/lib htmlgen.php

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <janmailing@gmx.de>:
> 
> > In this case (LinuxToday) the modification date is quite a nice format:
> "Sep 
> > 17, 2001, 13:02:51" but strtotime is obviously not able to parse it 
> > correctly, it always returns -1. Since this is an already human readable 
> > format there's no need to do a date('...',strtotime()).
> 
> Hmm. Are there any standards about the date format in the feeds? Maybe we 

I don't think so. The feeds don't even provide all fields, so they probably 
don't care too much about standards.

> should only pass it through unchanged if strtotime returns -1 ?

The user comments in the php manual makes me think that this function doesn't 
work very reliable so we should only use it if we know that a certain time 
field has a format that works.

Jan.