On Jan 27, 2015 4:36 PM, "Derick Rethans" <der...@php.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Pierre Joye wrote:
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> > On Jan 27, 2015 11:25 AM, "Yasuo Ohgaki" <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think the warning is fair as it is, if it is annoying for small
> > > > use cases like on the CLI then simply: php -d date.timezone=UTC -r
> > > > "echo date('H:i:s');" or the dirty way by using the silent
> > > > operator. It used to be a notice prior 5.3 I think or something.
> > > >
> > > > While I do agree that most applications should be using UTC, which
> > > > should be set by default we sometimes need to tell userland the
> > > > hard way how things work, and/or what they should care about, like
> > > > the E_WARNING, E_CORE_ERROR, E_DEPRECATED for old php.ini
> > > > settings.
> > > >
> > > > -1 for removing it from my side.
> > >
> > > I can understand your argument. Perhaps, we may reconsider to
> > > introduce E_DEBUG/E_USER_DEBUG for these purposes. There are many
> > > functions, e.g. file related, that I feel E_WARNING is excessive.
> >
> > I do not have a strong opinion on that. So keep it or make it UTC
> > default but please do not add yet another warning/notice/whatever.
> >
> > Also, setting a timezone is not about Dev or other fancy tasks, it is
> > about making datetime processing right.
> >
> > If anything I would enforce the default at configure/build time. So it
> > at least gets the correct one from a host point of view.
>
> That would be nice, but it's unfortuntately not really possible. You
> can't find out what timezone the OS is using in a portable way. Not even
> among different linux distributions, let alone having Windows in the
> mix. We tried this before, and because it caused so many issues, the
> current warning was added (instead of trying to guess a timezone).Either we get a valid one at install time or we bail out during make install. Do not worry about windows here, no biggie either. I am not saying we must do that but it is by far friendlier that we do now or what it is proposed. > cheers, > Derick
