Re: Local time zone

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Evert Pot wrote: > On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > > > 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? The best way is always going to be: set it up yourself. > 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. The extension already has http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.timezone-name-from-abbr.php which is basically the guessing algorithm. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug