[php-maint] Bug#673763: Bug#673763: Upgrade to php 5.4 broke system-fallback for date_default_timezone_get()

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Andreas,

I have pulled code from PHP 5.3 and removed the extra warning. PHP 5.4.4-6 will
have the fix.

O.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> Package: php5
> Version: 5.4.3-4
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> apparently upstream changed the logics of the
> date_default_timezone_get() function in a way such that the
> use_embedded_timezonedb_fixes.patch is not having any effect anymore.
>
> At least here with:
>
> cat /etc/timezone
> Europe/Berlin
>
> this php script:
>
> <?php
> echo date_default_timezone_get();
> ?>
>
> produces this output:
> PHP Warning:  date_default_timezone_get(): It is not safe to rely on the
> system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone
> setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used
> any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most
> likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone
> 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in
> /tmp/tzinfo.php on line 3
> UTC
>
> While php 5.3 correctly produced Europe/Berlin without any warnings.
>
> Andreas
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages php5 depends on:
> ii  libapache2-mod-php5  5.4.3-4
> ii  php5-common          5.4.3-4
>
> php5 recommends no packages.
>
> php5 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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