daylight saving time issue

[BuildSmart <buildsmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I built and installed php-5.2.4 about a month ago.

The issue I'm having is that all calculated times are off by one hour  
since we had a time change.

Seems that PHP doesn't respect DST or the php.ini setting for  
automatic compensation is so buried that finding information on  
setting it is impossible to locate.

Someone posted something about the timezones at http:// 
fischer.tecnologia.ws/en/node/1 regarding a timezonedb module but the  
instructions do not provide links to some of the specific tools and  
scripts mentioned in the post and are incomplete instructions that  
don't work which makes any intelligent person conclude that the  
author is an idiot.

I have php built with the date module, I tried setting the  
"date.timezone=America/New_York" as outlined but this had no effect  
on the time, and even changing it to "America/Los_Angeles" seemed to  
have no effect as it still reported the local time - 1 hour.

How do I get php to report the correct time all the time, I don't  
want to have to rebuild php every time there is a time change, one  
would think that php would be intelligent enough to automatically  
adjust and report the correct time but this doesn't appear to be the  
case.

The system time is reported properly using the date command.

# date "+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S"
DATE: 11/06/07
TIME: 15:49:54
#

All apps report the correct time but php seems to be off by 1 hour,  
how do I get php to report the correct time all the time, I don't  
want to have to rebuild php every time there is a time change, one  
would think that php would be intelligent enough to automatically  
adjust the time but as far as I can tell, it isn't so php must be  
broken.

- -- Dale
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