Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:81211 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31546 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2015 09:38:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jan 2015 09:38:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; 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] ([82.113.146.227:46650] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 77/92-18778-F7C57C45 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:38:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96A0A10C0DF; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:38:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:38:04 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Matteo Beccati cc: Bob Weinand , PHP Internals In-Reply-To: <54C732F3.8050304@beccati.com> Message-ID: References: <54C732F3.8050304@beccati.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove the date.timezone warning From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Matteo Beccati wrote: > On 27/01/2015 01:34, Bob Weinand wrote: > > > > I'd like to request removal of the date.timezone warning. > > > > Here is the RFC: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal > > > > The warning is certainly annoying, but making it default to UTC or a > wrong timezone because the right one can't be guessed is a major WTF. Exactly. > Ideally the initial setup of php.ini could be handled by the distro > package system, if it's not already? None of the distros do it well enough. Some even invent stupid stuff like "System.Localtime" as their timezone identifier, while they really should just figure out what timezone is configured for the system, and put that in a datetime.ini setting in their php.d/ dir or whatever they use. cheers, Derick