daylight saving time problem

[Tom]

I've manually updated the timezone to reflect the new DST for the
entire server network I'm working on. Almost everything is working
correctly, except PHP's date/time functions still return dates as
though DST will occur at 2:00am on April 2, 2007. This only happens
when the script is executed through an http request:

<?php
echo date("F d, Y H:i:s", time()) . "\n" ;
?>

on shell:
[user]$ php test.php
March 12, 2007 11:55:51
(correct)

on web browser:
March 12, 2007 10:55:11
(incorrect)

What's the problem here?

[Colin McKinnon]

Re: daylight saving time problem

Tom wrote:

on shell:
[user]$ php test.php
March 12, 2007 11:55:51
(correct)
>
on web browser:
March 12, 2007 10:55:11
(incorrect)
>
What's the problem here?

You're probably running as different users, running different binaries, with
different environments.

If its critical to fix it, then start with the env settings and work
forwards from there.

C.

[Gordon Burditt]

Re: daylight saving time problem

>I've manually updated the timezone to reflect the new DST for the

>entire server network I'm working on. Almost everything is working
>correctly, except PHP's date/time functions still return dates as
>though DST will occur at 2:00am on April 2, 2007.

Did you restart the web server after you did the OS patches?
Processes like Apache (and cron) may suck in the timezone rules or
value of $TZ or whatever once on startup, and keep the same rules
until the process is restarted.