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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:55:51 +0200
To: Christian Stocker <christian.stocker@bitflux.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Timezone stuff - conclusion
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

At 15:44 08/10/2005, Christian Stocker wrote:


>On 8.10.2005 15:30 Uhr, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > I've been away from email for the last couple of weeks - read through
> > the timezone thread, and didn't really see a conclusion.
>
>IIRC the conclusion was, that Derick tries to make the TZ detection
>better (which was the only BC problem, AFAIK). And according to him,
>that's now almost solved (except some weird problems on Windows).
>
>He even made a pecl package for updating the TZ data easily should that
>change.
>
>If the TZ detection works reliable, I don't see any reason to revert or
>postpone Dericks work, the timezone handling of his implementation is so
>much better than the old one, it's really worth the upgrade for everyone
>having to deal with different timezones.

Ok, maybe I missed it in the lengthy thread.

Contrary to what Derick may have thought from my response, I wasn't trying 
to reopen the discussion, just to make sure it doesn't linger to death.

Zeev