Re: Local time zone
| From: | Evert Pot | Date: | Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:30:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Local time zone | ||
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On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Oleg Oshmyan <chortos@inbox.lv> wrote:
>
>> I am willing to work on patches but I suppose some consensus should be
>> reached first.
>
> The consensus was that you have to set a valid default timezone in php.ini
I feel there may be a lot of value for people being able to install PHP applications and run them
without any additional configuration.
What would be the recommended way to have PHP reflect the systems timezone?
I like the PHP 5.4.0 behaviour of defaulting to UTC if it's not setup, but would it be possible
to get the old functionality through a warning-less 'date_guess_system_timezone'.
The 'guess' in the function-name should be enough of a warning. People who opt-in to this
behaviour explicitly comply to the possible inaccuracy of the result. I would be one of those
people, and as much as it may disturb you; I feel I'm not alone.
Evert