Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19234 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6387 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Sep 2005 08:35:07 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6369 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2005 08:35:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Sep 2005 08:35:07 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.74.107.235:54667] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 0E/1F-54476-9B55A334 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:35:06 -0400 Received: (qmail 30382 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2005 08:35:01 -0000 Received: from shire.zend.office (10.1.2.160) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 28 Sep 2005 08:35:01 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:35:01 +0300 (IDT) X-X-Sender: frodo@shire.zend.office To: Lester Caine cc: Derick Rethans , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <433A52A7.2090805@lsces.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <43393A43.4070805@lsces.co.uk> <43397E48.7080107@lsces.co.uk> <43398CB6.9030808@lsces.co.uk> <433A52A7.2090805@lsces.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] timezones & date() breakage From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) LC>>Stanislav - DISPLAYING local time only applies to the local site - when you LC>>are logging into an Australian machine the local time of that machine is not LC>>a lot of use. But *IF* I want to compare - say - bid times between an Just think about what you are telling me. I say "with new code my application stopped working" and you answer me "but if you application would do something completely different that it never intended to do, the new code enables it to do it". What kind of answer is that? Yes, for your application it is necessary to display time local for the client - but for MY application it is NOT! Is it so hard to understand? If you want to do your stuff - fine, do it (if you can - think about where are you going to find updated timezone rules in format PHP needs and how easy would it be for you to put them in PHP?). I am talking about something different - about MY stuff that stopped working, and according to what Derick says would never work again. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115