Re: [PATCH] date/timelib: use system timezone database

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: > 2008/1/9, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org>: > > The reason we do not use the system database is because it is > > inconsistent and likely is updated less frequently then the one > > included with PHP. > > please consider this patch as an alternative for us !! Why do you need this? There is the PECL timezonedb extension which is updated just as frequently. > in anycase, you will probably find this patch included in distros > anyway, because this particular "feature" causes a lot of unnecesary > manteniance pain, distributions just update the system timezonedb in > regular basis. Yes, and that means bye-bye to support on it. If everybody would patch PHP then how can we every support things? regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org