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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's
 the rationale?
From: leafnode@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?TGVzemVrIEtydXBpxYRza2k=?=)

On 2013-05-23 22:10, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>> The "U" in UTC *does* stand for "Universal," after all. It's a
>> sensible default and as such shouldn't
> I don't think it's a sensible default - people don't actually use UTC
> when considering dates. A minority of people can use timezone that
> coincides with UTC, but not very many use actual UTC.

I was wondering - why not get time zone info from operating system? It's 
should be quite easy on both *nixes and Windows. That way default value 
would be "from operating system", with possibility to override it in .ini.

--Leszek