- Paperback: 152 pages
- Publisher: Marco Tabini & Associates (20 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0981034500
- ISBN-13: 978-0981034508
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,435,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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If your development involves working with dates and times, then this book is a must-have. In this book, Derick Rethans (contributor to PHP's core date extension and well-known PHP expert) explores in great detail the subtle nuances of working with dates and times. Frequently PHP developers encounter unexpected results that adversely affect their software and web applications. This book will undoubtedly help them tackle those issues. This book covers a variety of areas including: history of calendars and time standards, giving the reader a better understanding of how date/time concepts evolved into the way they are today parsing date/time strings and the potential pitfalls a developer can encounter timezones, the quirks inherent in them, and how your application can handle these quirks formatting and representing times and dates correctly and dealing with the DateTime Object manipulating and working with past, future and recurring dates obtaining dates when timestamps aren't available format specifiers upgrading the master timezone database What are PHP experts saying about this book? "Complex date and time programming isn't just for international applications. Even in the US, we have to deal with up to nine different time zones, and shifting between these can be difficult. Derick is one of the most knowledgeable people I know when it comes to date and time programming. I have turned to him countless times for help, and now he brings that depth of knowledge to this book. If you need to parse dates and times, shift between time zones, or manipulate dates and times in your applications then this book is for you." - Ben Ramsey "If you ever have to deal with parsing or formatting timestamps, or dealing with timezones this is the definite reference to make your time related PHP coding tasks fast and simple!" -Elizabeth Marie Smith This is the most comprehensive book on date/time data for PHP available, and one that any PHP developer can't do without.
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Derek Rethans' guide to date and time programming is a concise, focused discussion of the surprisingly extensive resources in PHP for dealing with time and timezones. After a brief discussion of the history of standardised calendars and times, the book covers the key areas of parsing and manipulating dates and times, and the issues of localisation and multiple timezones.
I haven't seen a more complete guide to handling date and time in almost any language, let alone PHP, and anyone with worries about how best to handle an upcoming internationalisation project is bound to find the book a great help.
There aren't many negatives - the writing is a little dry, but not excessively so, and there are quite a few references to features only available in PHP 5.3, which at the time of writing had only been recently released. This shouldn't put off people working on older versions of PHP however, as multiple ways of solving a given problem are usually shown. It's a slim volume, clocking in at just under 140 pages, but it's exactly the kind of book you'd want on the shelf for that one thorny problem.
I haven't seen a more complete guide to handling date and time in almost any language, let alone PHP, and anyone with worries about how best to handle an upcoming internationalisation project is bound to find the book a great help.
There aren't many negatives - the writing is a little dry, but not excessively so, and there are quite a few references to features only available in PHP 5.3, which at the time of writing had only been recently released. This shouldn't put off people working on older versions of PHP however, as multiple ways of solving a given problem are usually shown. It's a slim volume, clocking in at just under 140 pages, but it's exactly the kind of book you'd want on the shelf for that one thorny problem.
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Excellent guide, funny publishing gaffe
27 Mar 2011
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This book does an excellent job delving into the deceptively complex topic of Earth time. There are a lot of very interesting details that the average person doesn't think about, but in a world of second-by-second data accounting, ever-changing time zone rules, and unpredictable leap seconds, this book is a must-have.
An interesting side note, my copy arrived with an amusing printing gaffe where the spine reads from bottom to top instead of the other way around like all other books. I think that means mine is a collector's item. If you ask really nice, maybe I'll get it signed by the author and you can buy it for a tidy sum.
An interesting side note, my copy arrived with an amusing printing gaffe where the spine reads from bottom to top instead of the other way around like all other books. I think that means mine is a collector's item. If you ask really nice, maybe I'll get it signed by the author and you can buy it for a tidy sum.
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