On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Martin Keckeis wrote:
>
> > If you use a deprecated Timezone somewhere and don't know it, it's hard to
> > track down...(no exception)
> > I only found it "randomly" today, that i've used it there and all time data
> > in the database are not correct...
> >
> > If you use something like:
> > \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2013-09-09 14:49:00', new
> > DateTimeZone('CET'))
> >
> > Just the default timezone from ini will be used and therefor the dateTime
> > value is wrong if you save it or display it somewhere...
>
> That is not true. CET is actually mapped to Europe/Berlin. This mapping
> was made specifically for BC reasons.
Or even in a smaller example:
derick@whisky:~ $ php -r '$a = new DateTimeZone("CET"); echo $a->getName(),
"\n";'
Europe/Berlin
cheers,
Derick
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