[php-maint] Bug#471104: Daylight saving for timezone Austrailia/Sydney is also wrong

[Dan Searle]

Hi,

More info on this bug...

# cat /etc/timezone
posix/Australia/Sydney

# date
Tue Apr  1 20:48:21 EST 2008

This is correct, however:

----foo.php----
<?php

echo date_default_timezone_get(). "\n";

$thetime = localtime(time(), true);
echo $thetime['tm_hour'] . "\n";

?>
----end foo.php----

# php foo.php
Australia/Melbourne
19

Both wrong, so the "magic" isn't working. If I set date.timezone in
php.ini to "Australia/Sydney", it's still reporting the wrong
localtime:

# php ./foo.php
Australia/Sydney
19

So, PHP 5.2.0-8+etch10, can't guess the right timezone if
date.timezone isn't set in php.ini, but even if it is set, it still
gets the localtime() wrong.

Regards, Dan...

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