If anyone who is really committed to running Mahara on a non-standard platform would like to fix this, I think the only really robust solution would be to switch from strftime() to date() or DateFormat, both of which use a different formatting standard that apparently is *not* OS- dependent. The main downside to that, is that it would make all of the datetime formats in our language files obsolete, because the format is completely different. So all the translated langpacks would need to be updated or they would stop working. (Potentially that update could be automated.)
There's also the simpler possibility of removing all the incompatible format strings from our core lang files. But I wouldn't want to upstream that because it would leave us printing leading zeroes in front of all of our hours and days of the month, e.g. "July 04, 07:30pm". (We could write more code to strip out those leading zeroes, but that would be hacky and brittle.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1451328 Title: Timezone identifier support for PHP on Windows Status in Mahara: Triaged Bug description: Last login column for users search is blank (and does not sort in the correct order) also the warning saying 'PHP on your website host does not return a useful value for the timezone identifier (%z) .....' on the admin page is not a fix for the problem and unfortunately some of us are not able to change from hosting on a Windows server. I am wondering if Mahara is using strftime resulting in the time zone identifier returning 'New Zealand Standard Time' in Windows rather than Linux' +1200 is part of the problem. I have searched the forums but not found a fix. Server: Windows 2012 R2 Mahara version: 15.04.0 and 1.9.4 IIS: 8.5 (both servers) also had same problem on a WAMP environment PHP version: 5.5.3 and 5.5.8 MySQL version: 5.5.40 on both servers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1451328/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
