On Fri, 24 May 2013, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > 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".
Absolutely not, as you can then never convert between that and another zone. This nonsense is what Redhat patches into it as well and it is a BAD idea. You'd have no idea which DST rules are cheers, Derick
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