[horde] Timezone problems

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Dan Lewis <Dan.Lewis at TheLewisHouse.com>:

>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> I'm having problems with the timezone setting in the user options   
>>> of Horde. It seems no matter what timezone I set it to, all the   
>>> times are displayed in GMT.
>>>
>>> Here's the configuration:
>>>
>>> Windows/XP Pro (SP2)
>>> Horde 3.1.3
>>> Apache 2.2.3
>>> PHP 4.4.4 (safe_mode off)
>>> Timezone set to "Pacific/Tijuana"
>>>
>>> The symptoms manifest themselves in a number of ways:
>>>
>>> (1) If I add a "Current Time" panel to the Horde Layout options,   
>>> then the time displayed is always GMT rather than local time, no   
>>> matter what timezone I set.
>>>
>>> (2) If I add a "Calendar Summary" panel to the Horde Layout,  
>>> events  that occur between the current (Pacific) time and 8 hours  
>>> later are  not listed - as if their time had already passed.
>>>
>>> (3) The emails listed in my Inbox are displayed with arrival times  
>>>  that are 8 hours later than their actual arrival time (as would  
>>> be  the case for GMT).
>>>
>>> I checked the server, and Windows displays the correct time in the  
>>>  bottom right-hand corner of its screen - and it's timezone  
>>> setting  is also "Pacific/Tijuana".
>>>
>>> Maybe we missed it, but neither I nor our Computer Systems   
>>> Administrator were able to find any relevant information on the   
>>> web, including in the Horde bugs database. Perhaps I have a   
>>> configuration setting that needs to be changed. Ideas?
>>
>> This PHP statement doesn't seem to work on your server:
>>
>> putenv('TZ=Pacific/Tijuana');
>>
>> Jan.
>
> I was able to finally solve the timezone problem by editing nls.php  
> to replace:
>
>      $tz['America/Tijuana'] = 'America/Tijuana';
>
> by:
>
>      $tz['PST8PDT'] = 'America/Tijuana';
>
> Is this the preferred approach, or is there a more appropriate way  
> to fix this?

If this is the timezone name your system understands, then this the only way.

Jan.

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