Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19203 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12367 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Sep 2005 14:08:34 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12351 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2005 14:08:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Sep 2005 14:08:34 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:50419] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 42/36-54476-F5259334 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:08:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8RE8Srl018151; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:08:28 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8RE8OEs018144; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:08:25 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:08:23 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Ilia Alshanetsky cc: Stanislav Malyshev , PHP Development In-Reply-To: <43394FF3.4000208@prohost.org> Message-ID: References: <433944EA.6070904@prohost.org> <43394FF3.4000208@prohost.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] timezones & date() breakage From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Yes, initially there will be some short-term pain in converting existing > apps, but for the long term it'll provide a robust and portable > solution. If we add "legacy" flag or INI setting, I feel that we'd be > taking a step backwards in terms of making applications portable. Such a legacy flag is not even possible without redoing all of the code by crippling it. There is no way that that is going to happen. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org