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

>> It is actually only about getting safe, cross platform/OS (even >> between Linux versions) for the TZ database. It has nothing to do >> with taste or similar subjective opinion. >> >> For the record, the behavior requested in this thread is what we had >> in earlier versions, all we got was plenty of bugs reports about >> wrong TZ detections. >> > > I had missed the removal of the TZ detection code from > guess_timezone() in 5.4. So @date_default_timezone_get() is somewhat > less useful than it used to be, as a function for detecting system > settings. > >> I think it is not too much asking to set it in php.ini or in your >> application. >> > > At least for MediaWiki, it's certainly more important to avoid > warnings than it is to have the right local timezone. UTC is used in > any case where consistency is important. Based on other posts to this > list, I don't think we're alone in this. For the record, the PHP 5.4+ date_default_timezone_get is equivalent to ini_get('date.timezone') ?: 'UTC' except that date_default_timezone_get will raise a warning and the above will not.