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

[Steffen Kamper]

"Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1204028369.25078.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
>> 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.
>
> PHP uses internal timezone database since version 5.1. It does not use 
> zone information from OS. There is a good explanation of it all in PHP 
> manual. There is a setting named "date.timezone" that should be set for 
> proper timezone handling in PHP. PHP issues notice if it is not set but 
> date() is used. So Windows should behave the same as Linus if they have 
> the same version of TZ database.
>
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can you tell me how to update this on windows?

vg  Steffen