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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 01:11:22 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?
From: morrison.levi@gmail.com (Levi Morrison)

>>> 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.

I believe this may have been the behavior at some point; at least
date_default_timezone_get change in PHP 5.4 to no longer includes info
from the OS.