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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:44:39 -0500
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?
From: bryan@ravensight.org ("Bryan C. Geraghty")

I like the idea of defaulting to UTC. Inevitably, this is how I set up =
my apps anyway.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcel Araujo [mailto:ceceldada@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:49 AM
To: Nikita Popov
Cc: Daniel Lowrey; Derick Rethans; PHP internals
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? =
What's the rationale?

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=20
> > using the CLI (and not web SAPIs).
> > This means that I frequently run PHP without an .ini file. As a=20
> > result, when I use any of the date/time functionality I invariably=20
> > 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 =3D UTC as the default INI value
>  * In php.ini-production and php.ini-development uncomment the
>        ;date.timezone =3D
>    line, i.e. change it to
>        date.timezone =3D
>
> This would mean that people running PHP without an ini would get UTC=20
> as the default and people running with an ini based on=20
> php.ini-production/php.ini-development would get the warning.
>
> Short of completely dropping the warning this is the behavior that=20
> would make most sense to me. (As people running without an ini=20
> obviously don't care about setting the timezone)
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>



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