hey andrew! sorry, this slipped under a pile of stuff.
On Saturday 15 March 2008 11:49:12 pm Andrew McMillan wrote: > The timezone data included in the current Etch build of PHP5 is out of > date. This causes timezone related calculations to be incorrect for > some parts of the world, notably (from 2:00am this morning) New Zealand. yeah, upstream insists on bundling their own timezonedb stuff and has actively rejected or at least ignored efforts in the past to use the system timezone datafiles instead: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=119988819621222&w=1 it seems there are those who do support the concept, myself included. i've recently sent a ping on this, including the original author (who is the RH packager for php last i checked). in the meantime, for the stuff in etch, what we probably need is the relevant changes to ext/date/lib from upstream cvs (you could try the web interface on cvs.php.net maybe) to get the updated info. if you spent the time digging up this info, i could include it in the current version of php5 we have in stable-proposed-updates before the next time i poke the release managers about accepting it... let me know if you're interested in doing this. sean
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