Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19525 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 84198 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Oct 2005 01:43:03 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 84183 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2005 01:43:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Oct 2005 01:43:03 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:33053] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 0A/28-54476-6A578434 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:43:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j991h0Kd017466; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:43:00 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j991gw7A017456; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:42:59 +0200 Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:42:58 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Lester Caine cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <43483E99.1080101@lsces.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20051008152435.09df8390@localhost> <5.1.0.14.2.20051008152435.09df8390@localhost> <5.1.0.14.2.20051008155416.09e525c0@localhost> <43483E99.1080101@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] Timezone stuff - conclusion From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Lester Caine wrote: > Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > 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. > > I think that the only thing that is missing is that there is no way of > identifying the CLIENT time/daylight zone so we have to get users to register > their current location in order to use it on anything other than a local > server :( Well yeah, but that's just simply impossible (and has nothing to do with the new code anyway). regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org