cvs: smarty /docs/en/designers/language-modifiers language-modifier-date-format.xml

messju		Fri Aug  5 17:59:16 2005 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers	
                                                	language-modifier-date-format.xml 
  Log:
  added explanation of changed behaviour of date_format's parsing
  
  
  
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-date-format.xml?r1=1.9&r2=1.10&ty=u
Index: smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-date-format.xml
diff -u smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-date-format.xml:1.9 smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-date-format.xml:1.10
--- smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-date-format.xml:1.9	Sun Jun  5 15:46:19 2005
+++ smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-date-format.xml	Fri Aug  5 17:59:15 2005
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
  <sect1 id="language.modifier.date.format">
   <title>date_format</title>
   <informaltable frame="all">
@@ -47,6 +47,24 @@
    formatting of the date. If the date passed to
    <command>date_format</command> is empty   and a second parameter is passed,
    that will be used as the date to format.
+   <note>
+    <para>
+     Since Smarty-2.6.10 numeric values passed to date_format are
+     <emphasis>always</emphasis> (except for mysql timestamps, see
+     below) interpreted as a unix timestamp.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     Before Smarty-2.6.10 numeric strings that where also parsable by
+     strtotime() in php (like "YYYYMMDD") where sometimes - depending
+     on the underlying implementation of strtotime() - interpreted as
+     date strings and not as timestamps.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     The only exception are mysql timestamps: They are also numeric
+     only and 14 characters long ("YYYYMMDDHHMMSS"). Mysql timestamps
+     have precedence over unix timestamps.
+    </para>
+   </note>
   </para>
   <example>
    <title>date_format</title>

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