Package: php5
Version: 5.3.1-5
Severity: wishlist
With PHP 5.3, it is now strongly recommended to set the timezone; failure to
do so makes date('U'), for example, trigger an E_WARNING (while time() is
fine): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
This is really annoying. For example:
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's
timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the
date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods
and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the
timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST'
instead in /var/www/tiki/trunk/lib/tikilib.php on line 47
I have *no idea* where 'EST/-5.0/no DST' comes from, although the system *is*
in GMT-5. IMO, there's even a bug here. The default PHP configuration doesn't
set date.timezone. This is, IMO, the right thing to do. Searching for elements
of this message on Google gives an idea of how much this change broke.
Telling me that my Debian system's timezone settings are unreliable is not
something I expect from software coming from timezones less than 10 years
behind mine. A *change* in this direction is quite frustrating.
Trying to use date_default_timezone_get() also returns America/New York.
Warning: date_default_timezone_get() [function.date-default-timezone-get]: It
is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to
use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In
case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you
most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York'
for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in /var/www/tiki/test.php on line 4
Since date_default_timezone_set() was not used, TZ is not set and
date.timezone was not set, date_default_timezone_get() must be "Querying the
host operating system (if supported and allowed by the OS)".
Current default time zone: 'America/Montreal'
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
990 testing security.debian.org
990 testing ftp.ca.debian.org
500 unstable ftp.ca.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===========================================-+-==============
libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.3.1-5) | 5.3.1-5
OR libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.3.1-5) |
OR php5-cgi (>= 5.3.1-5) |
php5-common (>= 5.3.1-5) | 5.3.1-5
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