Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54481&edit=1
ID: 54481
User updated by: stuart at horuskol dot net
Reported by: stuart at horuskol dot net
Summary: date_default_timezone_get() returns incorrect
timezone
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: Linux/Ubuntu
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
I don't quite see why this is not a bug...
Why, when I own my server(s) and want to be able to have a single point
of configuration for timezones on that server (because of interoperating
services like PHP and MySQL) instead of sharded configuration in
separate files, can I not rely on my system timezone?
In addition - since the error is because I don't have default timezone
set - something is going wrong with the request to the server for the
timezone.
If you won't fix it, fair enough, but I don't think this is bogus.
Previous Comments:
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[2011-04-08 11:40:03] der...@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
The guessing algorithm isn't perfect, that's why you *need* to make the
date.timezone setting in php.ini. You will also get a warning when it's
not set:
derick@whisky:~$ php -n -r 'echo date_default_timezone_get(), "\n";'
Warning: date_default_timezone_get(): It is not safe to rely on the
system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone
setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used
any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most
likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/London'
for 'BST/1.0/DST' instead in Command line code on line 1
Europe/London
So make sure you have display_errors on as well, as well as set
error_reporting to include warnings. I've updated the documentation to
reflect this.
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[2011-04-08 11:39:12] der...@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of derick
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=310049
Log: - Clarify the guessing stage of date_default_timezone_get() a bit
to prevent bug reports such as #54481.
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[2011-04-07 04:21:10] stuart at horuskol dot net
Description:
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We noticed a discrepancy between PHP and the server timezones, and found
that one four different servers (with two different versions of PHP -
5.2.4 and 5.3.2) the server was set to Australia/Adelaide (ACST), but
this date_default_timezone_get() was returning Asia/Jayapura (EIT).
There is no value in date.timezone (it is commented out) in the CLI and
Apache PHP configuration files - so according to the documentation, PHP
should be getting the timezone from the server configuration.
Why is it getting this random Asia/Jayapura value?
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>From manual page:
http://www.php.net/function.date-default-timezone-get#Description
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Test script:
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echo date_default_timezone_get();
Expected result:
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The correct timezone - not Asia/Jayapura when the server is set to
Australia/Adelaide
Actual result:
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Asia/Jayapura
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