Re: 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Lester Caine wrote: > Martin Keckeis wrote: > > > > just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has > > changedin 5.4. > > > > It's already mentioned here, that all "special" timezones, expect of > > UTC are deprecated: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php > > > > But couldn't found that in the upgrade guide...so i used CET > > somewhere in my code and didn't found the error soon.... > > > > A short note in the upgrade guid would be great! > > This is not so much an 'upgrade' note, but rather a update to the > timezone library in general. The tz database is being 'rationalised' > at the moment, and the base list of zone names simplified, with many > of these only being retained for 'backwards' compatibility. Derick > will probably add a comment, but we can expect a few more changes over > the next couple of updates to the tz data. We will see what happens there. As far as I know most of those changes have been reverted in the TZDB anyway. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine