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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Local time zone
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Stas Malyshev wrote:

> > I believe he's referring to sys/time.h, but this introduces 
> > portability issues.  If it were just unix, that would be one thing. 
> > But maintaining this and a Windows alternative, and I have no idea 
> > what that is, is not worth it IMO.
> 
> Yes, portability is questionable. Though if we had a good patch that 
> allows to do it, I don't think it would be too bad to have it.

This can never be portable, because Windows doesn't even bother keeping 
historical timezone rules. They only have: current normal UTC offset, 
current DST offset and rules on when there is a transition between.

Derick