Re: [RFC] [PRE-VOTE] Remove the date.timezone warning

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Are you sure that "the ini file is created by the package > > > maintainer and it includes the “date.timezone” setting" is true? > > > Last time I checked it > > > > I my experience, it is unfortunately not universally true - I've > > seen Linux distros with ini files that don't do that. Setting TZ > > correctly would require some non-trivial script work, and I'm > > guessing whoever did the package did not want to do this work. In an earlier thread I posted what Debian needed to do. It's trivial. > > They could of course just put UTC there but that didn't happen > > either. > > I agree. > > The difficulty is choosing the right one. Linux is multi user system > and users may have their own locale settings. System's default and > user's default may differ also. Distributor cannot choose the right > timezone automatically. > > If it's impossible to determine right one automatically, PHP shall > have reasonable default which would be UTC. The only reasonable thing is to let people chose what they want. That means, we do *not* set the timezone by default. If distribution maintainers want to pick something for their users, that's fine, but I am vehemently against removing this warning. cheers, Derick