Re: timezones & date() breakage

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > DR>>But you do need UTC somewhere, as *all* date code (OS, applications) > DR>>use UTC timestamps to calculate the current time. > > So? They are able to use it transparently without requiring me to do any > special configuration for each application - they just go out and display > the right date. Only PHP 5.1 needs separate configuration for that. This > is broken. I wouldn't call it broken, just less inituitive. But besides that point, I looked at some data and have a patch that allows the timezone guessing code to also check against the GMT offset, and not only the abbreviation. This means that with these DB entries: { "idt", 1, -HOUR ( 3), "Asia/Tel_Aviv" }, { "idt", 1, -HOUR (4.5), "Iran/Teheran" }, { "idt", 1, -HOUR (6.5), "Asia/Calcutta" }, IDT will be recognised correctly for all three variations. There are two ways of creating the database for this: 1. by iterating over the timezone database and collecting all the possible combinations 2. by copying the data from http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/timezonenames.html I think option 1 is the better here, and I'll play with a script to generated that data tonight. After that I'll commit the patch too. I think this shoul adequately solve the problems that you encountered. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org