Re: Local time zone
| From: | Ángel González | Date: | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:28:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Local time zone | ||
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On 14/12/11 22:53, Will Fitch wrote:
> I believe he's referring to sys/time.h, but this introduces portability issues. If it
> were just unix, that would be one thing. But maintaining this and a Windows alternative, and I have
> no idea what that is, is not worth it IMO.
<time.h> is present in *nix, Windows, and probably everywhere php runs.
As it provides mktime/gmtime/localtime, it should be possible to
portably deal with timezones.
At least when it's not multithreaded.
And if the host doesn't contain timezone data (embedded systems,
perhaps), that "System" zone
could simply default to UTC.