After my last week's email on timezones I have come to the decision that it is far more sensible to cease using fixed offsets from UTC (e.g. +2:00) and to use the proper zones e.g. "Europe/London".
After doing some reading up on the subject as I am not too familiar with it, I understand that it is necessary to keep the local DB up-to-date, for PHP this comes in the form of PECL's timezonedb. Since we distribute PHP as a part of a larger product, we would be responsible for keeping this up-to-date - so what I need to know is: * where does the php_timezonedb.dll need to be located and does it need to be in php.ini - I can't find mention of the file in the default installation * how often would we actually need to update the DB - PECL says "You should only install this extension in case you need to get a later version of the timezone database than the one that ships with PHP." - does this imply that we might actually be fine to continue using the default installed DB for the foreseeable future? I'd appreciate any guidance on this - TIA. --rob
