[wp-hackers] DB tables changes to WP - dateYMDhour in users table

[Matt Mullenweg]

Does someone want to file a bug that we populate the user datetime field 
on registration or setup?

Goghs Cheng wrote:

> I have suggested some changes to WP long ago ( post in WP forum:
> http://wordpress.org/support/index.php?action=vthread&forum=6&topic=41
> ).
> Since we have this ML, I plan to reopen these topics for discussion.
> 
> To make things clearer, I'll do it one by one.
> 
>  I suggest improvements to DB schema. I think WP DB structures have
> too many inheritted features/drawbacks from B2.
> 
> dateYMDhour field in users table
> The only occurence of this field is when one resigters to a WP site.
> The only DB operation concerned is in wp-admin/users.php - add user
> info into DB.
> We can tell this field is for record of user registration time. I
> think this makes sense. But obviously, the field name is too bad. So
> why not change it to 'user_reg_time' ?
> And since we have this field in DB, we should use it. Otherwise we
> should delete it. But since this field is a meanful one, my suggestion
> is we leave it and invent some use of it. One obvious usage is in
> admin interface->Users , that's we display a "User got his/her feet
> on" info.
> 
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