Timezone issue

[apmuthu]

The installer shows Asia/Karachi as GMT+6:00

it should be GMT+5:00

[CraigChilds94]

We use a built in PHP class and round up, the other time zones appear to be correct is this still an issue for you?

[apmuthu]

When we run the actual timezones() function in the file install/run.php, we get:

            [offset] => 21600
            [label] => GMT+6   Asia/Karachi
            [timezone_id] => Asia/Karachi

The source data from the first line in the said function above using the native PHP class DateTimeZone is

$list = DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers();

and the part contents of $list are:

    [231] => Asia/Kabul
    [232] => Asia/Kamchatka
    [233] => Asia/Karachi <-----------
    [234] => Asia/Kashgar
    [235] => Asia/Kathmandu
    [236] => Asia/Kolkata <-----------
    [237] => Asia/Krasnoyarsk
    [238] => Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
    [239] => Asia/Kuching
    [240] => Asia/Kuwait

where it is clear that Asia/Kolkata (GMT+5:30) is after Asia/Karachi (GMT+5:00) Hence this could have been an error with the timezone() function used during the round up of the offset, but:

$list = DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers();
echo $list[233] . chr(10);
// Asia/Karachi
$now = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone($list[233]));
$offset = $now->getOffset();
echo $offset;
// 21600 => 6 hours

clearly indicates that PHP itself is erroneous as far as the tz offsets are concerned here for PHP v5.3.1 (obtained from "echo phpversion();") under windows XAMPP v1.7.3.

Hence nothing needs to be done in anchor_cms about this!

[systimotic]

Since it's an error in PHP and probably already fixed in the latest version, I think this can be closed. You're version of PHP actually is older than the requirements say you need, so you're pretty lucky if everything works