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Posted by Michael J Martin on 03/30/06 18:49
Either way, I just thought it would be appropriate to let the devs who
work on strtotime know that which is why I posted here, to try and find
out what the reporting process is.
I'm not bashing the function, it usually does a fantastic job.
Mike
robert wrote:
> | To be fair, the documentation does say that strtotime only /attempts/ to
> | give the correct timestamp.
>
> just to razz you a bit...
>
> all software /attempts/ to do what it should. now to be more accurate than
> fair/apologetic, it is far better for a function to *fail* when such
> /attempts/ cannot be concluded successfully. i'd rather get an error thrown
> my way or *nothing at all* returned from said function instead of *wrong* or
> unexpected results.
>
> otoh, [if digital cameras worked this way and, ] if this kind of thing
> happened when i took pictures of beautiful women but the camera's /attempts/
> failed to clothe them...not only would i be forgiving...i'd buy more. some
> unexpected results are quite splendid indeed. ;^)
>
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