Re: [PATCH] date/timelib: use system timezone database
| From: | sean finney | Date: | Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:40:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] date/timelib: use system timezone database | ||
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hi everyone,
sorry for digging up this dead horse...
On Thursday 10 January 2008 01:05:35 pm Joe Orton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:03:02PM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Joe Orton wrote:
> > > It's a bit of a maintenance headache for distributions when
> > > packages include their own copy of the timezone database, since this
> > > needs to be updated frequently.
> >
> > There is a PECL extension to provide those updates:
> > http://pecl.php.net/package/timezonedb
> > It is a drop-in replacement to update the rules.
>
> My aim is to eliminate the additional copies of the timezone database,
> rather than ship and maintain yet more. Just as I don't want to
> statically link all system libraries into PHP, nor have to build special
> copies of any of them for PHP.
joe: did you ever get further on this? it seems this thread died off and
nothing came of it, as far as I can tell.
sean
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