Re: date() function doesn't automatically pick up TZ environment variable.

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >Setting it in your Apache environment doesn't help. It has to be set in >the Unix environment, so the script that starts your Apache server needs >to do a real setenv before starting Apache. Apache env variables you >define in your configuration file are available from PHP via getenv(), but >that doesn't mean they are in the underlying Unix env. Ahh. Of course the problem there is that doing so would be a global change, rather than a change specific to the host. :/ Different hosts require different time zone settings. >>putenv("TZ=" . getenv("TZ")); >>...which seems ludicrous, because doesn't the above just say: "set the >>environment variable TZ to the value of the environment variable TZ" ? Or >>else, am I missing some means of making TZ automatically set in the PHP >>$_ENV array that using getenv() in this way somehow alleviates ? >Nope, getenv() checks the server env first, then the unix environment. In >your case you have it set only in your server environmennt. putenv() >explicitly sets it in the unix env. Ah, I see. I don't suppose anyone knows of a way to do what I am attempting? :) Specifically, transparently setting the TZ for a virtual host within Apache so that PHP would pick it up automatically? I suppose the real rub here is that PHP doesn't look to the results of getenv(TZ) for its time zone setting. If not, I suppose the only thing I can do is to set the TZ value by hand in each of the application files (or in a common include, or some such thing). Best Wishes, and many thanks for the reply, Jw. -- John C Worsley | Lead Programmer / Web Developer, Command Prompt, Inc. (503) 222-2783 | jlx@commandprompt.com | webmaster@thelinuxreview.com TheLinuxReview | News for Linux Users | http://www.thelinuxreview.com