On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is a simple fact that the Linux distributions handle all of the material
> they support via the package management.
Yes, still none of our business.
> Many of them update PHP with minor
> version updates when things like a new tz version comes out
Yes, if they use the bundled TZ data, but then it is updated via the
extension update not the whole php.
> 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.
Still none of our business.
> 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.
TZ is bundled and updated on a regular basis. Updating PHP updates the
TZ data. It however does not help to update it while keeping the same
php version running. We can't do much about it.
> 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?
The CA data is a single file and we will provide a script to update
it. Add it to a cron and you are done. We can't do that for the TZ
data due to technical reasons. We could find a way but it is not worth
the effort, one can always update PHP to x.y.z+1.
> 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
Microsoft has nothing to do with that. They update the Windows TZ
database, which is not used by PHP and there is no plan to use it.
Even if we would use it, it would bring a lot of issues due to cross
platform compatibility.
Cheers,
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Pierre
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