Re: time zone ignored (both via ini or in code)

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > a few thoughts, > 1. set error_reporting to E_ALL to see if the engine is trying to tell you > something you may be overlooking Sorry, failed to mention that I did this, and it says nothing. > 2. for grins, maybe see if the TZ environment variable is set on your system >     var_dump(getenv('TZ')); I didn't post the phpinfo() output originally but had checked and no, TZ isn't set. > 3. another test would be to set date.timezone to something else and see if > date_default_timezone_get() returns that new value, which would indicate > it's falling through to the third option in the precedence chain. AHA! I had tried checking validity by setting a BOGUS time zone (which showed that it was taking effect), but I had not tried checking by setting an alternate VALID time zone. Guess what? It works. If I set it to America/Denver, I get correct output. Thus, something is corrupt in the timezone DB itself (which I believe is internal to PHP from what I understand from the threads I've read). America/Chicago is completely broken but America/Denver works just fine. Incidentally, I have noticed that CentOS is completely broken in their tz distro. Every time it updates, it includes a US/Central file that is completely invalid. This has persisted for months--at the OS level I've fixed it by copying in a valid US/Central file from another box. But doing that does not fix PHP (tried that just now)--which again I'd expect it not to anyway, since I believe PHP (as of PHP5) has an internal timezone DB. But I tried it just in case. So now I suppose the thread becomes: how do I get a valid US/Central (America/Chicago) timezone in PHP5? Thanks much, Dan