http://laughingmeme.org/2005/04/04/daylight-saving-sucks-war-time/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://laughingmeme.org/2005/04/04/daylight-saving-sucks-war-time/comment-page-1/#comment-19359 Looking at PHP5’s DateTime and DateTimeZone - Laughing Meme Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:13:16 +0000 http://lm.quxx.info/?p=1058#comment-19359 <p>[...] I mentioned briefly earlier that PHP is now shipping with an extension timezonedb, which is a compiled version of the Olson database. The Olson database is a massive, largely volunteer effort to catalog the various timezones both in use, and those that have been in the past. Time is a political issue, particularly day light savings, and as such the rules governing it are arbitrary, whimsical, and subject to frequent change. (p.s. gotten a panicked memo yet about new daylight savings compliance for March 11th? No? Where did you say you worked?) [...]</p> [...] I mentioned briefly earlier that PHP is now shipping with an extension timezonedb, which is a compiled version of the Olson database. The Olson database is a massive, largely volunteer effort to catalog the various timezones both in use, and those that have been in the past. Time is a political issue, particularly day light savings, and as such the rules governing it are arbitrary, whimsical, and subject to frequent change. (p.s. gotten a panicked memo yet about new daylight savings compliance for March 11th? No? Where did you say you worked?) [...]

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