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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:48:53 -0300
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?
From: ceceldada@gmail.com (Marcel Araujo)

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I agree.


2013/8/28 Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Daniel Lowrey <rdlowrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm probably not the typical PHP user; I spend 99% of my PHP time
> > using the CLI (and not web SAPIs).
> > This means that I frequently run PHP without an .ini file. As a
> > result, when I use any of the date/time
> > functionality I invariably end up with this awesomeness:
> >
> > > Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone
> > settings blah blah blah.
> >
>
> I was thinking about this again and maybe we could reach the following
> compromise:
>
>  * Set date.timezone = UTC as the default INI value
>  * In php.ini-production and php.ini-development uncomment the
>        ;date.timezone =
>    line, i.e. change it to
>        date.timezone =
>
> This would mean that people running PHP without an ini would get UTC as the
> default and people running with an ini based on
> php.ini-production/php.ini-development would get the warning.
>
> Short of completely dropping the warning this is the behavior that would
> make most sense to me. (As people running without an ini obviously don't
> care about setting the timezone)
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>



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