Re: [RFC] Remove the date.timezone warning

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com> wrote: > On 27/01/2015 01:34, Bob Weinand wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I'd like to request removal of the date.timezone warning. >> >> Here is the RFC: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal < >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal> >> > > The warning is certainly annoying, but making it default to UTC or a wrong > timezone because the right one can't be guessed is a major WTF. > > Ideally the initial setup of php.ini could be handled by the distro > package system, if it's not already? > > > Cheers Isn't UTC the only "right" default timezone there is for a server? Everything else being there to simplify implementation of websites which anticipate a geographically narrow target audience? Anyway, I absolutely don't get why out of all the hundreds of ini settings that we have, some of them vastly more important than setting a timezone (like display_errors or error_reporting - newbies trip over these much more often), the only one we actually require you to specify is date.timezone. That seems very disproportional. Nikita