Timezone Guessting (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR::Date broken)
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:54:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Timezone Guessting (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR::Date broken) | ||
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Lester Caine wrote:
> Derick Rethans wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Lester Caine wrote:
> >
> > >Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > >
> > > >I agree completely. Can't we just call the damn thing DateTime stick it
> > > >into
> > > >RC1 of PHP 5.2, and move on?
> > >
> > >Gets my vote
> > >
> > >( Now we just need browsers to return REAL timezone data ;) )
> >
> > http://talks.php.net/show/time-phptek6/30 works pretty
> > well... (but
> > talks.php.net doesn't have it so the example doesn't work there)
>
> Not sure, but I think that still has the same problem with not knowing the
> real timezone/daylight saving of the client?
Actually, guessing it from the abbreviation with gmt offset is pretty
accurate. Of course, it's not 100% correct but atleast I couldn't find
any where it didn't work.
Derick