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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] timezones & date() breakage
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph")


> I wouldn't call it broken, just less inituitive. But besides that point,
> I looked at some data and have a patch that allows the timezone guessing
> code to also check against the GMT offset, and not only the
> abbreviation. This means that with these DB entries:
>
>     { "idt",  1,   -HOUR (  3), "Asia/Tel_Aviv"       },
>     { "idt",  1,   -HOUR (4.5), "Iran/Teheran"        },
>     { "idt",  1,   -HOUR (6.5), "Asia/Calcutta"       },
>
> IDT will be recognised correctly for all three variations.

Cool, you can generate a sane E_STRICT from that too (telling people what
they need in their php.ini to speed things up).