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1999-08-30

decibel [30-Aug-1999 @ 05:01]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 05:01 +00:00

:: 30-Aug-1999 05:12 (Monday) ::

After reading a very interesting web site about HTTP caching
(http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/), I thought I’d try making our .php
scripts more cache friendly. What I soon found out was that Sybase
and php like to use different date/time formats. Sybase likes to
output formated date/time strings (like ‘Apr 4 1999, 13:40’), but .php
is very heavily biased towards unix style timestamps.

If any of you have any functions we could use to convert from the
Sybase format to the .php format, I’d love to hear about them! You
might want to add the info to the php annotated manual too
(http://www.php.net/manual/).