Peter Sawczynec wrote: > This is an excellent lucid recap. Thank you. > > So my take away is that PHP date() et al. is fairly adept at handling > time zones as based upon a relatively uniform database of > internationally-recognized time zone names, but that D.S.T. as a > changeable entity is not handled. So it appears to me that at this time > one must reach into one's code and put in a fix for the shortly upcoming > new non-standard D.S.T. associated to the several time zones in the U.S. > and that PHP is at this time not prepared to handle this change until it > is added into the core functions at a later date and that such new > D.S.T. update is not currently incorporated in an version of PHP 5.x
I must confess to not keeping up with the latest wranglings in php5.x, but as far as I am aware php4.x draws its timezone information from the operating system and my testing indicates that it is 100% correct on both my windows XP machine and linux (debian stable) server. Dan _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
