Am 24.05.2013 18:45 schrieb "Derick Rethans" <der...@php.net>: > > On Fri, 24 May 2013, Leszek Krupiński wrote: > > > I was wondering - why not get time zone info from operating system? It's > > should be quite easy on both *nixes and Windows. That way default value would > > be "from operating system", with possibility to override it in .ini. > > You can't, as the OS doesn't give you the timezone identifier in a > portable way.
Couldn´t the default, in the absense of an .ini setting, be to use localtime(), i.e. whatever libc does, with the timezone _identifier_ being some string like "OS", "System", or "Localtime" - and we could then also use that identifier in .ini or ini_set to precisely say "use the same timezone as all the other libc using programs on this system". best regards Patrick
