[BlueOnyx:15733] Re: New GUI gone gooey! :) - fixed!

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Colin,

> Looking good though.

Thanks!

I just published updated base-alpine and base-time RPMs to the YUM
repository. So all you need to do is to run a "yum clean all" and "yum
update" and it'll be good again.

This problem has been one of these PHP inconsistencies which can really
drive people nuts. Because it is utterly stupid and illogical.

PHP even has built in functions so that you can calculate the sunrise
and sundown based on your geographical coordinates. What it doesn't have
is this:

It doesn't recognize "UTC" as valid time zone and throws an E_WARNING
when you use date_default_timezone_set("UTC"). Go figure!

During your YUM update you got a new "tzdata" RPM out of the OS's YUM
repository. As usual (and as always) that will reset the system timezone
to "UTC". And the next time PHP saw that, it yelled "Mama!" and threw a
tantrum. \o/

I gave PHP a pacifier and now it's too busy sucking on that to throw a
fit if the system time zone is set to "UTC". Which is a supported time
zone. It's just not supported by PHP. They rather like you to use the
geographical region such as "Europe/London". Which is actually just one
alias (of many) for "GMT".

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber