[php-maint] Bug#471104: Bug#471104: php5: Please rebuild against up to date timezone data

[sean finney]

hey andrew!

sorry, this slipped under a pile of stuff.

On Saturday 15 March 2008 11:49:12 pm Andrew McMillan wrote:
> The timezone data included in the current Etch build of PHP5 is out of
> date.  This causes timezone related calculations to be incorrect for
> some parts of the world, notably (from 2:00am this morning) New Zealand.

yeah, upstream insists on bundling their own timezonedb stuff and has actively 
rejected or at least ignored efforts in the past to use the system timezone 
datafiles instead:

http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=119988819621222&w=1

it seems there are those who do support the concept, myself included.  i've 
recently sent a ping on this, including the original author (who is the RH 
packager for php last i checked).

in the meantime, for the stuff in etch, what we probably need is the relevant 
changes to ext/date/lib from upstream cvs (you could try the web interface on 
cvs.php.net maybe) to get the updated info.  if you spent the time digging up 
this info, i could include it in the current version of php5 we have in 
stable-proposed-updates before the next time i poke the release managers 
about accepting it... let me know if you're interested in doing this.



	sean
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