[dev] Timezones with dates before 1970

[Vilius Šumskas]

Sveiki,

> Community-

> I'm looking for some feedback on this ticket:

> http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=5593

> Basically, if you have both a recent glibc OR are on Windows, and  
> aren't using PHP 5, dates before 1970 and after 2038 don't work with  
> unix timestamps. The ticket above is for parsing vTimezone data, which
> suffers from this problem depending on the dates in the timezone rules.

> Does anyone have a sense of how often vTimezone data has dates before
> 1970 in it? I'd rather let this go if it's an edge case, since PHP 5  
> will handle it just fine anyway, but if we have to, we can put in some
> workaround code.

I don't use PHP4 anymore. And a people I know uses PHP4 in contrast with
PHP5 like 1 to 20. So my personal opinion it is not worth it.

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Best regards,
 Vilius