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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:24:51 +0900
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To: Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove the date.timezone warning
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

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Hi Kalle and all,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>
wrote:

> I think the warning is fair as it is, if it is annoying for small use
> cases like on the CLI then simply: php -d date.timezone=UTC -r "echo
> date('H:i:s');" or the dirty way by using the silent operator. It used
> to be a notice prior 5.3 I think or something.
>
> While I do agree that most applications should be using UTC, which
> should be set by default we sometimes need to tell userland the hard
> way how things work, and/or what they should care about, like the
> E_WARNING, E_CORE_ERROR, E_DEPRECATED for old php.ini settings.
>
> -1 for removing it from my side.
>

I can understand your argument.
Perhaps, we may reconsider to introduce E_DEBUG/E_USER_DEBUG for these
purposes.
There are many functions, e.g. file related, that I feel E_WARNING is
excessive.

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net

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