On 5/4/07, Rob Desbois <robert.desbois@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a script which uses UTC times read from a database. Up until now the users have just provided their current timezone offset from UTC in hours, but this needs to be changed as the script may not be running on a server with UTC set and I'd like to use set_default_timezone(). Looking at the documentation, all of the timezones which I want to provide (Etc/GMT+N, Etc/GMT-N and UTC) are listed as 'only existing for backward compatible reasons'. Is there any reason why UTC should exist only for backward compatible reasons?? It seems like a pretty important timezone to me... What's the best way to go about providing this functionality? Should I just provide an option of all regional timezones (how do I use this? The manual says where to download a pre-compiled Windows DLL but doesn't explain how to use it). Even if I do that how should I obtain UTC time if UTC is a deprecated timezone? Thanks! Rob
Quite strange that UTC and GMT are deprecated timezones..., anyway, if you don't want to use them, use one of the cities that are in GMT timezone (Europe/London for example). I don't know how this will behave as London (and whole GB) uses DST, so that might have affect the real time ... Tijnema -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
