Bug #39142 [Com]: Remove the obnoxious date() warning

From: Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:05:38 +0000
Subject: Bug #39142 [Com]: Remove the obnoxious date() warning
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 ID:                 39142
 Comment by:         giecrilj at stegny dot 2a dot pl
 Reported by:        danc at merrillpress dot com
 Summary:            Remove the obnoxious date() warning
 Status:             Bogus
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Date/time related
 Operating System:   RHEL4
 PHP Version:        5.1.6
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

If the system timezone is set correctly, PHP can use the numeric offset
of the time zone to match its internal records.


Previous Comments:
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[2006-10-13 11:02:37] tony2001@php.net

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to
report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

>forcing users to specify it twice (once in the overall
>system configuration and once specifically for PHP) serves no purpose.
The point is that without date.timezone PHP *guesses* timezone. 
Even if the system timezone is set correctly, it doesn't mean PHP is
able to guess it, since timezone names are different across different
OSes.

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[2006-10-13 00:53:04] danc at merrillpress dot com

Description:
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In the rewritten date functions, the system emits an E_STRICT warning
when date() is called without the timezone having been set via
date_default_timezone_set() or date.timezone in an INI file.

This is bad behavior. While being able to override the time zone is a
nice feature, the system time zone is usually set correctly, and forcing
users to specify it twice (once in the overall system configuration and
once specifically for PHP) serves no purpose.

Reproduce code:
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date()

Expected result:
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E_STRICT

Actual result:
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No warning of any kind


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