On Thu, March 20, 2008 12:40 pm, sean finney wrote: > sorry for digging up this dead horse... > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 01:05:35 pm Joe Orton wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:03:02PM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote: >> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Joe Orton wrote: >> > > It's a bit of a maintenance headache for distributions when >> > > packages include their own copy of the timezone database, since >> this >> > > needs to be updated frequently. >> > >> > There is a PECL extension to provide those updates: >> > http://pecl.php.net/package/timezonedb >> > It is a drop-in replacement to update the rules. >> >> My aim is to eliminate the additional copies of the timezone >> database, >> rather than ship and maintain yet more. Just as I don't want to >> statically link all system libraries into PHP, nor have to build >> special >> copies of any of them for PHP. > > joe: did you ever get further on this? it seems this thread died off > and > nothing came of it, as far as I can tell.
Sorry for beating on the dead horse that has been dragged up, and late to boot... Just recently, somebody wondered why PHP had the CORRECT time when their web-server didn't... As I understand the situation, if you can get ALL the sysadmins of the world to update their [bleep] timezonedb frequently, PHP can drop the internal timezonedb. :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
