Re: timezones & date() breakage
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:02:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: timezones & date() breakage | ||
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Wez Furlong wrote:
> 20 known (and worked-around) bugs are "better" than an unknown
> quantity of unknown bugs.
>
> Remember: it worked "yesterday" but with the minor release it stops working.
> Just because the new version works for you, doesn't mean it isn't
> broken for others :)
>
> Can you honestly guarantee that it's not going to be a BC break by the
> time we release?
Well, it would be much better if we just force people to set the setting
correctly, then it doesn't break any BC. And ofcourse, you can never
guarantee anything for a 100%, but it definitely should cover things
for a large majority. I do think we should not be saying
"oooh, it doesn't work - let's remove it and go back to "working" code,
which is broken. Also, if it *does* gets guessed wrong, all you need to
do is set one php.ini setting. If this was a .0.x release then this is a
problem, but not when you're bumping from 5.0 to 5.1.
regards,
Derick