Re: [RFC] Remove the date.timezone warning

From: Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:24:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove the date.timezone warning
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Hi Kalle and all,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think the warning is fair as it is, if it is annoying for small use
> cases like on the CLI then simply: php -d date.timezone=UTC -r "echo
> date('H:i:s');" or the dirty way by using the silent operator. It used
> to be a notice prior 5.3 I think or something.
>
> While I do agree that most applications should be using UTC, which
> should be set by default we sometimes need to tell userland the hard
> way how things work, and/or what they should care about, like the
> E_WARNING, E_CORE_ERROR, E_DEPRECATED for old php.ini settings.
>
> -1 for removing it from my side.
>

I can understand your argument.
Perhaps, we may reconsider to introduce E_DEBUG/E_USER_DEBUG for these
purposes.
There are many functions, e.g. file related, that I feel E_WARNING is
excessive.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
[email protected]


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