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Doc Bug #44592 usage of deprecated timezone UTC suggested
Submitted: 2008-04-01 13:03 UTC Modified: 2008-04-01 13:16 UTC
From: bernhard at bksys dot at Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-04-01 13:03 UTC] bernhard at bksys dot at 
Description:
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http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php , which lists the timezone UTC says: "Note:  Please do not use any of the timezones listed here, they only exist for backward compatible reasons."

OTOH http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php says:  "timezone_identifier The timezone identifier, like UTC or Europe/Lisbon."

Also, http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-get.php says: "If none of the above options succeeds, return UTC".

I suggest to substitute UTC for something that does not exist for backward compatible reasons only.

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 [2008-04-01 13:11 UTC] derick@php.net 
UTC is not deprecated.. the message on that page is not 100% correct.
 [2008-04-01 13:16 UTC] derick@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 [2010-09-18 20:48 UTC] i at walkinraven dot name 
List of Supported Timezones -> Others, there are words:

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Warning
Please do not use any of the timezones listed here (besides UTC), they only exist for backward compatible reasons.

URI: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php
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I think the 'besides UTC' should be replaced by 'except UTC'.
 [2020-02-07 06:10 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of derick
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=0fb10b826e6ab4a71d0ee195a82a91ee6beb32e0
Log: - Fixed bug #44592: Update text in warning on "Others" page.
 [2020-02-07 07:30 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of derick
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/base.git;a=commit;h=bac72e46e79aef7e3a3d192adfb3b684db25d600
Log: - Fixed bug #44592: Update text in warning on "Others" page.
 
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