Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:56918 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 71717 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2011 10:33:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 2011 10:33:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.213.170 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.213.170 mail-yx0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.213.170] ([209.85.213.170:41934] helo=mail-yx0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C5/80-02613-F7B78EE4 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:33:35 -0500 Received: by yenl6 with SMTP id l6so515338yen.29 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:33:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=N/viGZsevxXf9S5ZJ938MaNZl4frEXGWTe0jviuX2k4=; b=nODMr7ipr3/IrzCCfvQxCS0zGjWG5AFAwfTEyThxDn7u7d/BEfPDWi6nXq0v7wguOY azkTwLocj8UyAeC/r6gfYD8UqplGUkq/iYaUmV8j/430TzmYqJbjxoBlEo7hrq6qPjrY abzq1r90oq3VnRwiQ7T9W7JM93XPdZI6/Jtmc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.153.42 with SMTP id e30mr11190515yhk.10.1323858812013; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.146.204.6 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:33:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <8D58A664-7250-4FEE-9424-2D2DEFC69308@inbox.lv> <1C397FE3-76E2-473B-B47F-194DAF3ACB39@inbox.lv> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:33:31 +0100 Message-ID: To: Derick Rethans Cc: Oleg Oshmyan , PHP Developers Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Local time zone From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > That will never happen. The whole idea with the new support is to get > *away* from OS idiosyncrasies and not adding more of them! PHP needs to > be able to rely on its own bundled timezone database. Parsing files on > the filesystem is slow and silly. And last but not least, it is not portable at all. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org