Re: docs for php date("I", $timestamp) for daylight savings

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Steve Chamberlin wrote: > The docs to PHP's date() function are unclear regarding the "I" format > string. They say date("I", $timestamp) returns whether or not > $timestamp is in daylight savings time: 1 if daylight savings time, 0 > otherwise. > > Trouble is, the docs don't explain how date() decides if a given > timestamp is in daylight savings time. DST starts and ends on > different dates in different political regions of the world. Does it > use the DST rules for the United States? Does it matter whether or not > the server is itself located in a region that observes daylight > savings time? It knows in which timezone the server is, and it will work with that. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org