Req #63339 [Com]: Set a useful default for date.timezone option

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63339&edit=1 ID: 63339 Comment by: ctd682001 at yahoo dot com Reported by: dirkjan at ochtman dot nl Summary: Set a useful default for date.timezone option Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *Configuration Issues PHP Version: 5.4.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I am using version 5.6.17 and I am having a similar problem. Specifically with Raspbian. PHP reports the timezone as MDT when I have it configured for America/Phoenix which is MST year round. Not sure where PHP is getting timezone information but my /etc/timezone says America/Phoenix. If I set default_timezone to America/Phoenix in script the time is correct. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-04 07:27:26] bmassot at free dot fr On Linux the guess_timezone() function of ext/date/php_date.c could try to look at /etc/timezone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-10-23 08:58:59] dirkjan at ochtman dot nl Description: ------------ It's pretty silly that PHP requires setting an explicit date.timezone. On both Unices and Windows, it should be pretty easy to get a default timezone from the OS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63339&edit=1