Hey all,
Most of you may never have run into this - but I just did, and figured I would pass it along in case it would help someone else.
I've got a WAMP setup on my system, that among other things (Typo3, Joomla, WordPress, SMF) I use to query Amazon AWS for product information. AWS requests are time sensitive. Thus, for me, it would not work unless I set my clock 4 hours ahead.
Here's why. PHP (and/or Apache) with the timezone properly set in php.ini were getting confused because of the TZ string format in eCS's config.sys file.
The format (for compatibility with PHP) apparently should
not be:
SET TZ=PST8PDT,3,2,0,7200,11,1,0,7200,3600
But instead
should be:
SET TZ=PST8PDT
Note: Of course, substitute for your correct timezone... mine actually should read EST5EDT
More hints & info here (PHP is not the only thing affected by this):
http://www.deltasys.org/ecsindex.htmlFor those of you making time sensitive PHP requests to other servers, hopefully this will help.
Best,
Rob