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

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Steffen Kamper wrote: on 26.02.2008 11:29:

> news:mailman.1.1204021414.26518.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
>> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
>>> The windows-halfTZ-Problem is unsolvable atm. as this seems a php-bug (or 
>>> windows bug?)
>> I found a rather recent PHP bug entry (without resolution) that is about 
>> the issue. At least it's related: the reported TZ *name* for "half-TZ" is 
>> always UTC. And of course the offset will be 0 for that.
>>
>> Masi
>>
>> PS: I found als a ZT with an offset of *:45 :-)
> 
> what i don't understand: on linux this works fine, so the reason must be in 
> windows libaries

The timezone detection is a completely different thing in Win32 and Unix 
environments. Different API provided by the OS, so also different 
PHP-code to handle that. Even the zone names differ.

Cheers,
Ernesto