Re: date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?

From: Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 05:48:27 +0000
Subject: Re: date.timezone E_WARNING -- Really necessary? What's the rationale?
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On 2013-05-23 22:10, Stas Malyshev wrote:

The "U" in UTC *does* stand for "Universal," after all. It's a
sensible default and as such shouldn't

I don't think it's a sensible default - people don't actually use UTC
when considering dates. A minority of people can use timezone that
coincides with UTC, but not very many use actual UTC.


I was wondering - why not get time zone info from operating system? It's should be quite easy on both *nixes and Windows. That way default value would be "from operating system", with possibility to override it in .ini.

--Leszek

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