#40202 [Opn->Bgs]: Arizona timezone detected as America/Denver

ID: 40202 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: ajb at blyler dot cc -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.0 New Comment: I am aware that they are different, but we can not rely on the /etc/localtime link, as that is something extremely distribution and OS dependent. Now, in order for PHP to detect which timezone it is in, it uses a few parameters: offset to GMT combined with DST, and the abbreviation. At the moment, all of these parameters are the same for both locations: derick@kossu:~$ TZ=America/Denver date +"%z %Z" -0700 MST derick@kossu:~$ TZ=America/Phoenix date +"%z %Z" -0700 MST and then we just have to pick one. Please remember, that making the setting is the correct way of doing things. The detection is there just to take care of BC issues as much as possible. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-23 14:15:41] ajb at blyler dot cc Setting the time zone in the php.ini file works just fine. But why doesn't php detect that /etc/localtime is set to Arizona's time zone? I would think that php would detect Arizona's time zone as America/Phoenix and not America/Denver. Since these time zones are different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-23 08:15:27] derick@php.net So set the correct time zone in php.ini: http://no.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php#ini.date.timezone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-23 04:41:20] ajb at blyler dot cc Description: ------------ When the timezone (/etc/localtime) is set to Arizona time a call to date_default_timezone_get() returns America/Denver. Which causes the date/time functions in php to incorrectly return date/time data since Arizona does not observe daylight savings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=40202&edit=1