When emerging a fresh copy of >php-5.3, the timezone is commented out in the configuration. It would be nice if we could get the timezone info from the system and put it into the configuration file. Reproducible: Always
This is a request we see every now and then. The PHP developers feel that it is unsafe to to rely on the systems timezone settings. Our current policy is to just follow upstream in this case. Thus it would be wrong to automagically set that parameter during install. Further, the error message that PHP emits is quite descriptive and leaves little doubt about what needs to be done. We are open for discussion regarding this issue, but right now we don't have any safer way of setting the timezone settings automatically than what the PHP devs have explicitly banned.
No discussion, so closing as wontfix. We are still open for discussion on this topic though.
