#35481 [Asn->Bgs]: Timezone error date_default_timezone_get()

ID: 35481 Updated by: nlopess@php.net Reported By: a dot schilder at gmx dot de -Status: Assigned +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Windows XP Home PHP Version: 5.1.1 Assigned To: derick New Comment: If you don't define the timezone settings, PHP will try to guess your timezone. Thats your case. So, this function returns the timezone that is on use by the php functions, which can be the ini setting, the timezone define with date_default_timezone_set(), or the magical guess. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-29 23:28:01] sniper@php.net Assigned to the author. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-29 23:19:27] a dot schilder at gmx dot de Of course, but IMHO this is the wrong behavior, because this function does not "rely on the system's timezone settings", it returns the current settings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-29 22:56:08] sniper@php.net Ever heard about @ ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-29 22:49:52] a dot schilder at gmx dot de Description: ------------ Using date_default_timezone_get() without having set a timezone before, produces an error: "It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for '1.0/no DST' instead". I want to check the current timezone and this should be the correct function for it. I want to get a result to work with Reproduce code: --------------- <?php echo date_default_timezone_get(); ?> Expected result: ---------------- Get an empty string, like with "ini_get('date.timezone')"). Also false or null would be okay. Actual result: -------------- Error message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=35481&edit=1