[horde] "Timezone database is corrupt" - but only for certain users

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Ketil Kristiansen <ketil at greatmachine.org>:

> I've been running the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition for a couple of
> years now, and until recently it did the job very nicely.
>
> However, a couple of weeks ago my server developed what turned out to be a
> hardware fault, which along the way led to a couple of crashes, at least
> one of which happened during a system update (using yum on Fedora Core 9).
>
> Now to the problem: After fixing the server and reinstalling a few
> corrupted libraries and such, I'm still having a rather odd problem with
> Horde Groupware: For *one* particular user (me!), I keep getting "Timezone
> database is corrupt - this should *never* happen!" errors in Apache's
> ssl_error_log (since I'm forcing SSL connections for Horde).
>
> These errors are generated by:
> date() in kronolith/lib/Block/summary.php on line 62
> date() in kronolith/lib/Block/monthlist.php on line 69
> getdate() in lib/Horde/Maintenance.php on line 337
> strtotime() in imp/lib/UI/Mailbox.php on line 199

This sounds like a system and/or PHP issue.  Horde uses php calls to  
set the timezone (which in turn calls system calls) so it has no  
control over the system's timezone database file.

michael

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