Re: timezones & date() breakage

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > IA>>This "incantation" is the standard name for your timezone across most > IA>>systems. Out of curiosity I've just tried "IDT" timezone on 3 machines > IA>>(Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris) neither of'em supported it. However, > IA>>they all supported "Israel/Tel Aviv", which is the real name for your > IA>>timezone. > > That is all fine and dandy, but if there's no way to find "real name", There is but I was not allowed to enable those functions in PHP 5.1. If you compile with -DEXPERIMENTAL_DATE_SUPPORT, you have a function timezone_identifiers_list() which returns a list with all the support settings. The function timezone_abbreviations_list() returns the known mappings between obsolete, broken, and non-unique timezone abbreviations and their real Identifier. > as you call it, to the timezone on the current machine, it basically > means no user could ever use date() - or application using date() - > with 5.1 unless he find out it by some external means and definitely > no automatic install of such application is ever possible. That's the > problem I want to address. But it's not an application's problem - it's a server configuration issue. > It is especially problematic when we have old working version - so it's > not that it is impossible to do that. And all applications except PHP deal > with this problem somehow without external configuration, and can display > dates without any problem. "without any problem" - are you kidding me? Have a look at a presentation I gave about it: http://derickrethans.nl/files/time-ac2005.pdf Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org