On 21/08/06, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This is documented in maintenance/tables.sql - check the comments at the top, it has something about timestamp fields.
Generally someone ages ago didn't like that TIMESTAMPs are auto- updated in MySQL and chose CHAR(14) instead of DATETIME. It would be pretty good idea to switch some day to datetime, and we have nearly all code in there. The sole problem is tables with tens of millions of rows to change. But that is doable, I suppose.
With Domas to read for them, I think the future of literature and the English language is sound.
Rob Church