[wp-hackers] Timezones, server settings, and WP dates

[Eric A. Meyer]

At 10:50 -0800 1/27/05, Matthew Mullenweg wrote:

>Eric A. Meyer wrote:
>>     On the other hand, in my shell account, I have in my .bash_profile:
>
>Since PHP is normally going to be running as a module and the web 
>server user, your enviroment variables would not be available.

    Yes, I know.  Did you read the rest of the message?  In it, I said:

"Might there be a way to effectively say to UNIX from PHP, "Hey, 
what's the time if I claim 'EST5EDT'?" and then use what comes back? 
(Adjusting the TZ designator as necessary, of course.)  That would 
mean it was only necessary to pick the appropriate TZ designator, and 
not have to implement time-shift handling in WP."

    So it doesn't matter what account under which PHP is running, nor 
its environment variables, if it's possible to send a question to 
UNIX and get the answer back, as I described.  Maybe it isn't 
possible, but you answered an entirely different question.

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