date() and php53

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:32:52 -0700
Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Beat Gätzi <beat at chruetertee.ch>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Matt Dawson wrote:
> >> Just a quick heads-up for anyone who has updated to php53 and is
> >> now getting an error message where the header should be in webui.
> >> The date() function now requires a timezone and won't rely on the
> >> system's timezone setting by default. Sticking the following:
> >>
> >> date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
> >>
> >> at the top of $pb/scripts/webui/index.php (obviously replacing
> >> Europe/London with your timezone) just below the <?php line will
> >> get rid of that error. Don't be tempted to just slam UTC in there,
> >> though.
> >>
> >> There's probably a better way to automate this, but as a quick fix
> >> it works.
> >
> > You could set date.timezone in your php.ini to get rid of this error
> 
> IMHO this ought to be fixed in the PHP port. Is there a good reason I
> should have to set the system timezone in individual applications, in
> addition to in the base system?
> 
> See:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571762
> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/php5/5.3.2-1/use_embedded_timezonedb.patch
> 

Yes, I agree, it's one of the stupidities php devels manage to come up
with.
I used to like PHP.

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