Re: 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed
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
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