note 94172 added to datetime.getoffset

The documentation and example imply that this method is only concerned with daylight saving time, but as erik's example demonstrates this is not true. It's really just returning the current UTC offset of the current timezone associated with this DateTime. For the US/Pacific timezone, it currently returns -25200 (-7 hours), and if I give it a date a few weeks hence (after Daylight Savings Time ends) it returns -28800 (-8 hours). The documentation should really be updated to clarify this. And the example is terrible of course, because London happens to match UTC part of the time. A timezone farther from UTC should be used instead. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 67.126.53.106 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.getoffset.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/94172 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94172 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/94172 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php