Re: Local time zone

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, David Muir wrote: > Keeping the tz database up to date is a very annoying issue. System tz > data is typically more up-to-date as it's pushed to the user, while with > php, you need to have admin rights to install an updated tz database, or > hope that the packager for your distro (or your web-host) does it for > you. Distributions should push the tzdata for PHP just like they do for Java. Nothing stops them from doing that. > As far as I can tell, most hosts do not update timezone data from > PECL. I just checked one host that is still on 5.2: > > date/time support enabled > "Olson" Timezone Database Version 2010.9 > Timezone Database internal > Default timezone UTC > > Sigh... > > Ubuntu however reports 0.system as the tz version. Does that mean that > PHP there is using the system's tz database instead? It means that they have a crap patch that scans the file system... and destroys some information that PHP users need to be able to rely on. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug