Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:68981 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3334 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2013 20:47:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Sep 2013 20:47:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:48203] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C5/0E-03199-FC33E225 for ; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:47:12 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BD84DE9FC; Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:47:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:47:09 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Lester Caine cc: PHP internals In-Reply-To: <522DB9A8.7040303@lsces.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <522DB9A8.7040303@lsces.co.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Lester Caine wrote: > Martin Keckeis wrote: > > > > just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has > > changedin 5.4. > > > > It's already mentioned here, that all "special" timezones, expect of > > UTC are deprecated: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php > > > > But couldn't found that in the upgrade guide...so i used CET > > somewhere in my code and didn't found the error soon.... > > > > A short note in the upgrade guid would be great! > > This is not so much an 'upgrade' note, but rather a update to the > timezone library in general. The tz database is being 'rationalised' > at the moment, and the base list of zone names simplified, with many > of these only being retained for 'backwards' compatibility. Derick > will probably add a comment, but we can expect a few more changes over > the next couple of updates to the tz data. We will see what happens there. As far as I know most of those changes have been reverted in the TZDB anyway. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine