From 7d550ae08471601c6f92c3973d44cbd72f828acd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Daniel P. Brown" <danbrown@php.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:46:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Rewrote the description section, correcting grammar,
rewording the structure, and expanding a bit on the actions.
git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@262908 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
.../functions/date-default-timezone-get.xml | 21 +++++++------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/reference/datetime/functions/date-default-timezone-get.xml b/reference/datetime/functions/date-default-timezone-get.xml
index 6ace09a3f2..ba24430b5c 100755
--- a/reference/datetime/functions/date-default-timezone-get.xml
+++ b/reference/datetime/functions/date-default-timezone-get.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
<refentry xml:id="function.date-default-timezone-get" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<refnamediv>
<refname>date_default_timezone_get</refname>
@@ -14,38 +14,33 @@
<void/>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
- This functions returns the default timezone, using the following "guess"
- order:
+ In order of preference, this function returns the default timezone by:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- The timezone set using the
+ Reading the timezone set using the
<function>date_default_timezone_set</function> function (if any)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <varname>TZ</varname> environment variable (if non empty)
+ Reading the <varname>TZ</varname> environment variable (if non empty)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <link linkend="ini.date.timezone">date.timezone</link> ini option
+ Reading the value of the <link linkend="ini.date.timezone">date.timezone</link> ini option
(if set)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- "magical" guess (if the operating system supports it)
+ Querying the host operating system (if supported and allowed by the OS)
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If none of the above options succeeds, return <literal>UTC</literal>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
</para>
+ If none of the above succeed, <methodname>date_default_timezone_get</method>
+ will return a default timezone of <literal>UTC</literal>.
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">