Doc #61841 [NEW]: date_default_timezone_set

From: Operating system: Linux PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:date_default_timezone_set Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.date-default-timezone-set#refsect1-function.date-default-timezone-set-parameters --- The manual says that you can supply the UTC for the timezone_identifier. This is not true. The function will not accept a UTC. Here is an example error message: Notice: date_default_timezone_set() [function.date-default-timezone-set]: Timezone ID '(UTC-12:00)' is invalid Test script: --------------- $timeZone = "(UTC-12:00)"; // validate the timezone specified by the user $script_tz = date_default_timezone_get(); if ( !date_default_timezone_set($timeZone) ) { date_default_timezone_set($script_tz); trigger_error("Timezone is invalid.", E_USER_ERROR); } date_default_timezone_set($script_tz); Expected result: ---------------- I would like this function to accept a UTC for the timezone_identifier parameter. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61841&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61841&r=mysqlcfg