Re: date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?

On Fri, 24 May 2013, Leszek Krupiński wrote: > On 2013-05-24 10:34, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 01:16 -0700, Kris Craig wrote: > > > Couldn't we take a page from MySQL's book and have a setup script that > > > prompts the admin for this (much like theirs prompts for a root password). > > > A reminder to run it could be added as a nag at the end of the install; > > > or, perhaps even have it give you these setup prompts at the end of make > > > install. This way, any environment-specific settings we think should be > > > there that don't have obvious defaults, like date.timezone, could be added > > > as prompts in the setup script. This would enable even inexperienced > > > admins to add these settings without cluttering-up the bugs tracker. > > An estimate of >90% of our users who are actually installing PHP > > themselves are using distribution packages of PHP and not our sources. > > They expect [yum|apt-get|...] install php to be the whole > > installation > > process. > > Yet it's not uncommon for yum/apt-get/whatever to ask for input (like > mentioned MySQL asking for root password). I'm pretty sure apt can read the configuration from their "tzdata" package to add the correct setting to php.ini: a=debconf-show tzdata | grep Areas | sed 's/.*\s//'; b=debconf-show tzdata | grep Zones/$a | sed 's/.*\s//'; echo "$a/$b" However, that is something for distributions to do as each distribution's mechanism is different. cheers, Derick