On 2012-03-21 09:19, Yann Gascard / VPA President wrote:
I'm normally using MySQL timezone description table (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/timezones.html). But lately they are not that reactive there. Is anybody able to help me finding a way to generate these description table easily by myself? I got to use them as hosting provider I've got is not updating PHP timezones and I need an up to date reference.
I don't have a Unix system. I can access to a Mac OS X one but even this one is really out of date (even with a system up to date). So I can't generate the tables using the mysql_tzinfo_to_sql there either :(** <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html>
If you're running MS Windows, you could use Cygwin to generate the data. This mimics a Unix-like system on Windows and has its own package manager to install and update packages. Its tzcode package (which includes both tzcode and tzdata) gets updated on a timely basis. Its mysqld package includes the mysql_tzinfo_to_sql utility. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-