[Bug 1069529] Re: Regression in system fallback for date_default_timezone_get()

[Robie Basak]

>  Antarctica/Macquarie$

This rings a bell, but I think it's a different (perhaps related) bug
that I can't find right now. This bug is when the system timezone
doesn't get picked up by default at all.

> I don't understand why PHP is so special it needs to be told
indivdually about my time zone, for each installed interpreter.

The upstream PHP project appear to prefer it this way, and aren't
interested in changing this. So multiple distributions (Debian/Ubuntu,
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, others?) have to patch in what they think is better
behaviour, and this regresses sometimes. See https://bugs.debian.org
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618462#10 for some further background.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #618462
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618462

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  Regression in system fallback for date_default_timezone_get()

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