Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34621 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60433 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Jan 2008 20:05:09 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60418 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2008 20:05:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jan 2008 20:05:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.7 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.7 mail.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.94.239.7] ([82.94.239.7:37592] helo=mail.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 71/27-04705-0F825874 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:05:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m09K4uOF026484; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:04:56 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:04:57 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Cristian Rodriguez cc: internals Mailing List In-Reply-To: <7d5a202f0801091158o75f872e6sccbb38723a6ea8d6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20080109141541.GA14571@redhat.com> <3B0880D2-C5C4-45C6-ABD4-C6B8316E1498@prohost.org> <7d5a202f0801091158o75f872e6sccbb38723a6ea8d6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] date/timelib: use system timezone database From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: > 2008/1/9, Ilia Alshanetsky : > > The reason we do not use the system database is because it is > > inconsistent and likely is updated less frequently then the one > > included with PHP. > > please consider this patch as an alternative for us !! Why do you need this? There is the PECL timezonedb extension which is updated just as frequently. > in anycase, you will probably find this patch included in distros > anyway, because this particular "feature" causes a lot of unnecesary > manteniance pain, distributions just update the system timezonedb in > regular basis. Yes, and that means bye-bye to support on it. If everybody would patch PHP then how can we every support things? regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org