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What in the world does this mean? https://txtlog.net/doc#:~:text=use%20your%20local%20time%20w... That's made twice as bad by the "we throw away Z because you were just kidding by including it". That leads me to believe that any RFC 3339 that isn't automatically Z (e.g. 1996-12-19T16:39:57-08:00 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.8>) is ... well, I don't know what it's going to do but it likely won't be good

It also appears that your documentation is currently a very verbose version of an OpenAPI spec, so you may save your readers some trouble by actually publishing one, with the added advantage that they come with a "Try it" button in the OpenAPI renders

That would allow you to save the natural language parts for describing things that are not API-centric (such as the "but WWWWHHHHYYY mysql AND clickhouse" that you alluded to elsewhere but wasn't mentioned at all in /doc nor /selfhost)

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The date treatment isn't great, but the repo seems to indicate it's existed as a public thing for 22 days. So perhaps just an early compromise to get it working.

For all the folks championing how awesome PHP is in this thread, one would surely hope it has rfc3339 aware date parsing, no? But I guess that <https://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=rfc%203339&sco...> and <https://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=iso8601&scope=...> both being :shruggle: doesn't do it any favors. However, it seems it is just a search stupidity because https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetimeimmutable.createfromfo...

I do love this, since it 100% squares with my mental model of PHP's approach to life: you're holding it wrong https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse-from-forma...

Given the tone and wording of your comments I hesitated to even reply but, alas, my love for PHP was strong enough to push me through.

You are, actually, doing it wrong.

https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/

I forgive you, being that you're clearly not familiar with modern PHP and it's incredibly mature and diverse library ecosystem and first class package manager.

> However, it seems it is just a search stupidity ...

You're searching a list of thirty (30) functions. I don't even know how you found that list of functions but, surely, you don't think that's an exhaustive place to search for a specific date format? Surely you're not being purposely obtuse. (As you likely found, if you just plop your search term in the search at the top of the PHP website you would have found the DateTime class and how to handle these various formats)

Anyway - for anyone who may happen across this odd chain of comments, dealing with dates in PHP is an actual breeze using Carbon\Carbon.

Pretty sure that doesn't handle the 'Z' timezone offset, as I saw the same with various PHP built-ins. Some ignore offsets, some don't...but handle only specific formats and not others, including the Z. So you still need some kind of wrapper.

Off-topic, but thanks for the neat trick with

    url#:~:text=blah

It's actually a standard! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments It can do a bunch of awesome stuff, but the text= one is the one I use the most

I finally started using it when it landed on Firefox release (although, in true Firefox fashion, they give no fucks about the UX forcing me to install an extension that is "create link to selection")

I too must thank you for this, I had no idea this existed and likely will be making regular use of it now :)

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