Pierre Joye wrote:
OK that is making sense. The only reason that the tz data sprang to mind is a
similar situation. Up until now windows has also had it's own timezone data
management,
This statement and the rest of your mail are wrong.
Again Php TZ data always have been built in, be on windows or other platforms.
It's PHP distributing the 'patched' windows builds here?
No and no need to either.
Now I'm just not sure if this is a matter of translating English?
It is a simple fact that the Linux distributions handle all of the material they support via the package management. Many of them update PHP with minor version updates when things like a new tz version comes out or some other library gets updated. They patch the PHP distribution to suit their needs and keep things up to date. Which nowadays is the right way of working.
Windows does not have the same update path when it comes to PHP and the like, so it needs a third party to provide up to date information. Either the user downloads a recent windows build from PHP or some other source. Or an alternative would be if there was some script mechanism to update CA files or tz data rather than having to a full reinstall? PHP does not up-issue simply because a new tz database is available, so in order to keep time up to date it would be nice to address that problem. IF Microsoft are now using the tz database directly then it may be possible to use that update via windows update. I understand why the same does not apply to the CA files ...
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