We have custom timezone handling code in Moodle versions 1.5 to 1.7. This was put in place to work around
- A long-standing bug in PHP on Windows 95/98/Me where TZ info was missing and the TZ calls did not return an error. This was considered a critical problem. This bug did not apply to WindowsNT/2000 AFAIK.
- Possibly outdated TZ info in all platforms. This is a minor issue.
This naturally affected all PHP-based projects. From PHP5 onwards, PECL's timezonedb (see http://php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php ) addresses both problems.
Moodle 1.8 is expected to require PHP5 so we can drop this nasty kludge.
- duplicates
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MDL-49684 Replace custom Moodle timezone stuff with standard PHP date/time code
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- Closed
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- has been marked as being related by
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MDL-6795 Stats never runs. stats_monthly table gets very full
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- Closed
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- will be (partly) resolved by
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MDL-7275 META BUG: Change minimum required PHP version to PHP 5
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- Closed
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