[TYPO3-core] RFC #7626: Date/time handling is completely broken in 4.2

[Steffen Kamper]

"Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]" <ernst at cron-it.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1203935094.3530.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Steffen Kamper wrote: on 25.02.2008 10:35:
>> "Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]" <ernst at cron-it.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>> news:mailman.1.1203930719.1386.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>> Hi Ernesto,
>>
>> we really missed you with this discussion :-)
>>
>> one point we found is that timezone/100 doesn't work with half timeuones
>
> True. We should switch all "(date('O')/100)*60*60" to "date('Z')".
>
> And as I found out Windows based PHP doesn't know any "non-standard" 
> timezone (e.g. +0430 they will always return "+0000" and "0"). So running 
> a Windows server on one of those bizarre timezones will get you in trouble 
> either way you do it. Under Unix-PHP it looks ok (tested with Debian 
> Linux).

i looked at, and with a TZ of +0530
date('O') returns 0
date('Z') returns 0

so i don't see a possibility here.

vg  Steffen