Re: Why does PHP consider the system's timezone unreliable, and is date_default_timezone_set() required?

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On 17 Feb 2014 at 17:04, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> On 17 Feb 2014, at 16:55, Tim Streater <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> People shouldn't assume that all execution of PHP takes place on a server,
>> because it doesn’t.
>
> I’m not going to get in to the arguments for and against because it was done
> to death at the time, but you must understand that your use case is incredibly
> rare for PHP.

You sure? I would have thought that as PHP is so easy to use, lots of people might write all their local command line scripts in it. I do - it would never occur to me not to.

> To get around your issue you can use the following to use the
> system timezone without getting the notice:
>
> date_default_timezone_set(@date_default_timezone_get());

This just gives me UTC, not the timezone the user has set.

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Cheers  --  Tim

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