ID: 39050
User updated by: duerra_NOT_THIS_ at pushitlive dot net
Reported By: duerra_NOT_THIS_ at pushitlive dot net
-Status: Bogus
+Status: Open
Bug Type: Date/time related
Operating System: Linux
PHP Version: 5.1.6
New Comment:
How is that correct? My time zone is GMT-6 hours, not GMT+6 hours. I
even noticed that it is noted in the user-contributed notes as being
backwards.
Also, I realize that I "should not be using" those values according to
the documentation, but PHP depricating those is lunacy, because having
a select dropdown of hundreds of locations/cities for an end user to
pick from for locale reasons is confusing and tedius. Those values
should not be depricated - they are useful, minimal, and concise. The
same cannot be said about selecting a city out of hundreds of cities
worldwide. Sure it is valid and useful for some instances, but
definitely not for time zone configuration for end users on a site -
and nor is developing a workaround system because useful features are
depricated in the language. I can understand depricating other values
but not the Etc/GMT* values.
PHP really needs to reconsider this. I also still do not understand
how the values provided with those settings are the correct values.
GMT-6 hours would be US/Central, but I'm given the value of somewhere
in Australia. That is not correct.
Previous Comments:
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[2006-10-05 14:34:46] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, those are correct. However, you should not even be using those -
they only exist in the timezone database for backward compatible
reasons. Pick one of the Continent/City combinations.
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[2006-10-05 14:28:38] duerra_NOT_THIS_ at pushitlive dot net
Description:
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When using Etc/GMT related values with date_default_timezone_set(), the
values are backwards of what they should be.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/GMT');
echo date('H:i').'<br />';
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/GMT-1');
echo date('H:i');
?>
Expected result:
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14:27
13:27
Actual result:
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14:27
15:27
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