get server timezone

[Marcus]

Hello,

As far as I can tell from the php.net documentation and other
documentation I've seen, date("T") should return the server timezone in
3-character format, i.e. EST, MST, etc...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

However, when I run date("T") on my machine with php 4.3.10, I get:

Pacific Daylight Time

Does anyone know why this is? The above documentation can't be version
specific to version 5 because I have also seen documentation written a
few years ago that says:

Timezone setting of the server in 3-character format, for example, "EST".

Thanks for all your help.

[Chuck Anderson]

Re: get server timezone

Marcus wrote:

Hello,
>
As far as I can tell from the php.net documentation and other
documentation I've seen, date("T") should return the server timezone in
3-character format, i.e. EST, MST, etc...
>

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

>
However, when I run date("T") on my machine with php 4.3.10, I get:
>
Pacific Daylight Time
>
Does anyone know why this is? The above documentation can't be version
specific to version 5 because I have also seen documentation written a
few years ago that says:
>
Timezone setting of the server in 3-character format, for example, "EST".
>
Thanks for all your help.
>

It's taken from the OS, and that long format is a Windows thing.

The manual says:
T Timezone setting of this machine Examples: EST, MDT ...

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