On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dan Yost <yodano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@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() ? > > > I had tried that originally too. It does set the timezone "correctly," > but then again so does the ini set. So the timezone does get set to > America/Chicago with a date_default_timezone_set(), and then PHP > shanks from there, showing UTC. It seems certain that the timezone > *does* get set to America/Chicago (via multiple methods), and that > America/Chicago *itself* is corrupt in PHP--and that's even with > timezonedb installed. Now everybody knows Chicago is full of > corruption, but at least the clocks aren't, right? > > Surely there are bizillions of others out there running this > combination of software in the Central time zone! Yet it's as if > nobody else has corrupt timezone DB records (be they internal or via > timezonedb) except me. And I can't help but notice how CentOS (tzdata > package) is also corrupt, every single time it gets updated, on the > Central zone but no others. Obviously these should be entirely > separate issues, but "somebody" out there has it out for the Central > time zone. Probably a Yankees fan. dude at this point i dont want to sound too much like a troll, but php 5.1 is some really old software. frankly this is why i chose not to run on centos during my evaluation of it. i understand the concept behind running proven stable software, but i think centos is taking that notion to the extreme. i would probly try building a more recent version of php from source and see if that helps. -nathan
