What's the point of using wordy Time Zones?
问题 I know this isn't specific to PHP, but what's the point of using timezones listed like this :http://us2.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php? For example "America/Indianapolis" and "America/New_York". What is the problem with EST, EDT, CST, CDT, &c? 回答1: This is just a different timezone format provided by the Zoneinfo database: The time zones in the database are given uniform names, such as “America/New_York”, in an attempt to make them easier to understand by humans and to remove