Re: Local time zone

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Ángel González wrote: > 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. PHP's date time support does not use time.h. With one of the reasons is that time_t is 32bit on most Unices, and we need to support things outside that range too. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug