On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Dan Yost <yodano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Dan Yost <yodano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> So now I suppose the thread becomes: how do I get a valid US/Central > >> (America/Chicago) timezone in PHP5? > > > > give the timezonedb extension a shot > > http://pecl.php.net/package/timezonedb > > > Tried it, no change. It is still impossible to get simple CENTRAL > timezone output. This is maddening. That's really weird since I'm sure php has its own timezone db, and it sounds like that's where PHP is getting it if you saw the correct output after switching date.timezone to America/Denver. What about trying date_default_timezone_set() ? -nathan