i really want to use the new timezone functions, but they require php >=5.1.0. so should i make 5.1.0 mandatory, or should we stick with php 4?
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.timezon … s-list.php
using php >=5.1.0 will make daylight savings time automatic and beautiful. you store all timestamps in UTC, then when you use date() to format them, the timestamps within DST get +1, and the others don't. this is the way things should be, instead of running UTC-7 for MST and UTC-6 for MDT.
i guess i could disable per user timezones and print UTC if the server isn't running php >=5.1.0.
thoughts?
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.timezon … s-list.php
using php >=5.1.0 will make daylight savings time automatic and beautiful. you store all timestamps in UTC, then when you use date() to format them, the timestamps within DST get +1, and the others don't. this is the way things should be, instead of running UTC-7 for MST and UTC-6 for MDT.
i guess i could disable per user timezones and print UTC if the server isn't running php >=5.1.0.
thoughts?
isn't PHP 5 pretty common now? I don't know much about common hosting options though, so I'm not sure how common only offering PHP 4 is. just gotta weigh that against the importance of the new features, obv.
this is a really simplistic forum. it seems kind of a waste to make it php4 incompatible over one feature...
however php is dropping support of php4 dec 31st.
however php is dropping support of php4 dec 31st.
there are two things that are the bane of my existence as a php programmer:
1. timezones
2. unicode
1. timezones
2. unicode