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[Narissa <narissa.bayler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Feel free to remove my above comment.  I've had a chance to look at the
issue.  For me it appears the best way to go with the %z is to hard code
the UTC offset and update it every time daylight savings starts and
ends.  As you saidthe database is not affected by the format but the
Leap2A export is.  Just removing the %z from the langconfig.php file
won't work because during the export process a colon is added before the
penultimate character, so simply removing the %z will leave you with two
colons before the seconds, e.g. <published>2015-05-01T16:32::55>.

%e to %d was a quick fix and the reason why the last login date (and
other dates) weren't showing is because %l (lower case L) is also not
Windows compatible. Interestingly it's not mentioned in the php manual's
strftime page but like %e can be replaced with %I (upper case i) giving
the same but with leading zero rather than a space.

I guess in the future it would be good if Windows compatible parameters
could be used in Mahara and a small formatting fix like the one in
Moodle's calendar structure.php page to remove the less than pretty
leading zero. (I guess ideally Windows parameters would work/work the
same as Linux but I'm thinking I'd have more luck here).   :D

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1451328

Title:
  Timezone identifier support for PHP on Windows

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Last login column for users search is blank (and does not sort in the
  correct order) also the warning saying 'PHP on your website host does
  not return a useful value for the timezone identifier (%z) .....' on
  the admin page is not a fix for the problem and unfortunately some of
  us are not able to change from hosting on a Windows server.

  I am wondering if Mahara is using strftime resulting in the time zone
  identifier returning 'New Zealand Standard Time' in Windows rather
  than Linux' +1200 is part of the problem.

  I have searched the forums but not found a fix.

  Server: Windows 2012 R2
  Mahara version: 15.04.0 and 1.9.4
  IIS: 8.5 (both servers) also had same problem on a WAMP environment
  PHP version: 5.5.3 and 5.5.8
  MySQL version: 5.5.40 on both servers

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