Re: date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale? | ||
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On Fri, 24 May 2013, Leszek Krupiński wrote:
> On 2013-05-23 22:10, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> > > The "U" in UTC *does* stand for "Universal," after all. It's
> > > a
> > > sensible default and as such shouldn't
> > I don't think it's a sensible default - people don't actually use UTC
> > when considering dates. A minority of people can use timezone that
> > coincides with UTC, but not very many use actual UTC.
>
> I was wondering - why not get time zone info from operating system? It's
> should be quite easy on both *nixes and Windows. That way default value would
> be "from operating system", with possibility to override it in .ini.
You can't, as the OS doesn't give you the timezone identifier in a
portable way.
cheers,
Derick