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

On Thu, May 23, 2013 3:10 pm, Stas Malyshev wrote: >> I'm probably not the typical PHP user; I spend 99% of my PHP time >> using the CLI (and not web SAPIs). >> This means that I frequently run PHP without an .ini file. As a > > I'm not sure how this follows - CLI is capable of using ini file just > like the rest of SAPIs. Why not create it? > >> 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 don't know about everybody else, but if I need a timezone-aware application, I always use GMT/UTC and have I/O routines for user-interface to convert to local for them.