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The mention of using 'US/Pacific-New' is actually a deprecated process.
See here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php
Where it is described:
Please do not use any of the timezones listed here (besides UTC), they only exist for backward compatible reasons.
timezone_abbreviations_list
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
timezone_abbreviations_list — Returns associative array containing dst, offset and the timezone name
Description
array timezone_abbreviations_list
( void
)
array DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations
( void
)
Return Values
Returns array on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example #1 A timezone_abbreviations_list() example
<?php
$timezone_abbreviations = DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations();
print_r($timezone_abbreviations["acst"]);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [dst] => 1 [offset] => -14400 [timezone_id] => America/Porto_Acre ) [1] => Array ( [dst] => 1 [offset] => -14400 [timezone_id] => America/Eirunepe ) [2] => Array ( [dst] => 1 [offset] => -14400 [timezone_id] => America/Rio_Branco ) [3] => Array ( [dst] => 1 [offset] => -14400 [timezone_id] => Brazil/Acre ) )
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User Contributed Notestimezone_abbreviations_list
Chris Danielson
01-Oct-2008 12:46
01-Oct-2008 12:46
drizzt321 at gmail dot com
20-Aug-2008 12:54
20-Aug-2008 12:54
If anyone is confused about the US/Pacific-New that appears in the list, apparently it has something to do with a bill that was that was passed by the House in 1989, but never signed into law. It has to do with delaying the switchover until after the election. Read more about it at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13.87.html and it should be the first posting. Or just do a search for US/Pacific-New.