Re: Upgrading to internal DateTime
| From: | Robin Burchell | Date: | Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:47:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading to internal DateTime | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.internals |
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A unix timestamp is in UTC, offsets are stored and applied seperately.
See tzset(3).
Unless someone has misconfigured their system, that is.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Karsten Dambekalns <karsten@typo3.org> wrote:
> Hi Derick.
>
> Derick Rethans wrote:
>>
>> This is not the correct thing to do, as you will lose timezone
>> information. The W3C format only stores UTC offsets (in the form of +00:00).
>> However, that same UTC offset can be used in different areas with different
>> DST changes. Best thing is to store in Unix timestamps.
>
> And how does a unix timestamp preserve timezone information? Or am I
> completely off track?
>
> Regards,
> Karsten
>
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