Hi all,
(first time I send an email here, so please be forgiving if something
doesn't follow expected rules.)
My web application allows users to enter time stamps (date and time)
given as local times. The time stamp is to be stored as UTC into the
data base.
Since we have summer and winter times (dst) there's an hour in the
autumn which exists twice in local time (it's 2:00 - 3:00 at the last
sunday in october here). Only the user knows which of these two hour is
intended to be stored into the data base, no program ever can decide
that by itself. Thus, the user has to add a character to the supplied
time stamp.
E.g.
"<last sunday in october>, 02:30 A" is summer time (e.g. GMT +02:00),
"<last sunday in october>, 02:30 B" is winter time (e.g. GMT +01:00).
My php function used the "is_dst" parameter of mktime() responding to
the user given "A" or "B".
How's that to solve in the future if "is_dst" doesn't exist any more?
(For now, it still works but gives a log line everytime the function is
called - E_STRICT is set).
Thanks for your help,
Zora
