Re: [MRBS-general] bug [ 1949482 ] Problems with daylight savingtime

[John B. - M. D. <jbe...@us...>]

John Beranek - MRBS Developer wrote:
> Jennifer Pollard wrote:
>> John Beranek - MRBS Developer wrote:
>>> Chris Snow wrote:
>>>> Thanks Mike.
>>> However, if your server is correctly configured for DST, no action
>>> should be necessary.
>> This doesn't seem to be true for me... We use GMT/BST and every time the 
>> time changes, I have to run a bit of SQL on our BST entries to bring 
>> them back in line to the correct time.  PHP and the server are both set 
>> to use Europe/London.
> 
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> I really don't quite understand why this is required, and if is purely
> the PHP version that is causing the new, incorrect behaviour. I also
> don't know how Windows behaves, and if there would be an equivalent TZ
> fix or not - I don't have a working MRBS installation on Windows at the
> moment (Apache+Mysql+PHP on Windows is a _right pain_ to get working).

Right got my Windows (Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.27) installation
working, and DST changeover seems to work perfectly there, with no
timezone fixes.

(It works equally well in MRBS 1.2.6 and MRBS 1.4svn r949)

John.

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