5.1.x
Date/time support
Date/time support
Date/time support
Date/time support has been fully rewritten in PHP
5.1.x, and no longer uses the system settings to ‘know’ the
timezone in operation. It will instead utilize, in the following
order:
-
The timezone set using the date_default_timezone_set() function (if
any) -
The TZ environment variable (if non empty)
-
“magical” guess (if the operating system supports
it) -
If none of the above options succeeds, UTC
To ensure accuracy (and avoid an
E_STRICT warning), you will need to
define your timezone in your php.ini
using the following format:
date.timezone = Europe/London
The supported timezones are listed, in this format,
in the timezones
appendix.
Also note that strtotime()
now returns FALSE on failure, instead
of -1.