PHP and tzdata2009x

[Derick Rethans]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, S?bastien WILLEMIJNS wrote:

> "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote in 
> news:B410D30A78C6404C9DABEA31B54A2813029A06C0 at nihcesmlbx10.nih.gov:
> 
> > The file...
> >      ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009j.tar.gz
> > ...is now available; this reflects the Bangladesh change circulated
> > earlier this week on the time zone mailing list (with a short turnaround
> > since the DST change is impending). We'll get to revisit Bangladesh once
> > the end to DST has been set.
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/php5
> 
> For debian PHP 5.2.6 is the stable version ok but this version 
> was builded in May 2008 grin ! http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.6
> 
> IMHO it is not good to keep for a long term a stable version with important
> informaton (as TZ ;)

PHP provides the timezonedb extension at http://pecl.php.net/timezonedb 
which you can install to update to the latest version.

with kind regards,
Derick

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