Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19227 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78089 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Sep 2005 07:36:09 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78053 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2005 07:36:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Sep 2005 07:36:09 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:51977] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 63/5C-54476-7E74A334 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:36:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8S7a4oW031862; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:36:04 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8S7ZwMV031836; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:36:00 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:35:58 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Stanislav Malyshev cc: Lester Caine , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <43393A43.4070805@lsces.co.uk> <43397E48.7080107@lsces.co.uk> <43398CB6.9030808@lsces.co.uk> 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 Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > LC>>> UTC. Do you have your watch in UTC and your wall clock in your home in > LC>>> UTC? > LC>> > LC>>ACTUALLY - all the server clocks are set to GMT - that way I know who ever > LC>>enters data, the timestamp is always correct, what ever their local time ;) > > I am starting to get an impression that you reply to me without reading > what I wrote. Once more: when I need to display current time for this > machine, I don't need UTC. But you do need UTC somewhere, as *all* date code (OS, applications) use UTC timestamps to calculate the current time. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org