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:[email protected]]
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 <[email protected]>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Daniel Lowrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm probably not the typical PHP user; I spend 99% of my PHP time
> > using the CLI (and not web SAPIs).
> > This means that I frequently run PHP without an .ini file. As a
> > result, when I use any of the date/time functionality I invariably
> > 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 = UTC as the default INI value
> * In php.ini-production and php.ini-development uncomment the
> ;date.timezone =
> line, i.e. change it to
> date.timezone =
>
> This would mean that people running PHP without an ini would get UTC
> as the default and people running with an ini based on
> php.ini-production/php.ini-development would get the warning.
>
> Short of completely dropping the warning this is the behavior that
> would make most sense to me. (As people running without an ini
> obviously don't care about setting the timezone)
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>
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