Re: timezones & date() breakage
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:35:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: timezones & date() breakage | ||
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LC>>Stanislav - DISPLAYING local time only applies to the local site - when you
LC>>are logging into an Australian machine the local time of that machine is not
LC>>a lot of use. But *IF* I want to compare - say - bid times between an
Just think about what you are telling me. I say "with new code my
application stopped working" and you answer me "but if you application
would do something completely different that it never intended to do, the
new code enables it to do it". What kind of answer is that? Yes, for your
application it is necessary to display time local for the client - but for
MY application it is NOT! Is it so hard to understand?
If you want to do your stuff - fine, do it (if you can - think about
where are you going to find updated timezone rules in format PHP needs and
how easy would it be for you to put them in PHP?). I am talking about
something different - about MY stuff that stopped working, and according
to what Derick says would never work again.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115