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.
derick@whisky:~ $ php
<?php
$a = \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2013-09-09 14:49:00' );
var_dump( $a );
?>
class DateTime#1 (3) {
public $date =>
string(19) "2013-09-09 14:49:00"
public $timezone_type =>
int(3)
public $timezone =>
string(13) "Europe/London"
}
derick@whisky:~ $ php
<?php
$a = \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2013-09-09 14:49:00', new
DateTimeZone('CET'));
var_dump( $a );
?>
class DateTime#2 (3) {
public $date =>
string(19) "2013-09-09 14:49:00"
public $timezone_type =>
int(3)
public $timezone =>
string(13) "Europe/Berlin"
}
cheers,
Derick
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