Hi
Am 2026-01-21 15:47, schrieb Derick Rethans:
possibility to change the timezone to UTC. So I disagree, as people
rightfully should have expected PHP to handle a specific pre-cooked
format to behave as the RFC that is named after ought to behave.
I agree with Derick's entire email, but particularly this part:
Providing some helper constant that requires you to perform an important
“extra step” with nothing forcing you to perform that extra step and
where not performing that extra step will result in behavior that is
subtly incorrect is dangerous API design. The further away from UTC your
“default timezone” is, the more wrong will the results be. This can have
significant consequences on the behavior of your application, e.g.
cookies expiring too soon or too late and confusing HTTP caching
behavior.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
