From 0f4d381ac01a88571865679a9c99ea4c4bea701f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gmer4Lfe <gmer4lfe@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 22:35:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Make PHP agree with the clock the rest of the server keeps

---
 Plugin/unraid/include/config.php | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php
index ff2a28c..ed6b9ed 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/config.php
@@ -56,9 +56,46 @@
 //   varaverk.cfg      SCRIPTS_DIR, CUSTOM_SCRIPTS_DIR
 //   master.conf       HOST<n> / HOST<n>_NAME — host identity
 //   host*.conf        HOST*_SSH_KEY — used for setup-state and conf push
+//   ident.cfg         timeZone — Unraid's own setting, adopted for the whole PHP layer
 //   VV_CACHE_DIR      /tmp/vv_cache (tmpfs — RAM speed, cleared on reboot)
 // ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 
+// ── Timezone ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Set here, before anything else, because every PHP entry point in the plugin reaches this file
+// and nothing that runs earlier has a date in it.
+//
+// PHP on Unraid has no date.timezone set and therefore runs in UTC, while the server itself runs
+// local — America/New_York on this one. Every date this layer produced was consequently offset
+// from every date the shell layer wrote, and the two are compared constantly: the token ledger,
+// the rsync history, the arr run dates, the parity cron. The AI tab's "Today" tile read zero for
+// the four hours between 8pm and midnight, the 7-day windows were cut at the wrong instant, and
+// the next parity check was displayed four hours out. All of it silent, all of it in the same
+// direction, all of it invisible for two thirds of the day.
+//
+// /etc/php.ini is the wrong place to fix it twice over: /etc is a RAM filesystem here, so the
+// edit dies at the next reboot, and it would change the timezone for every other PHP application
+// on the box to fix one of ours.
+//
+// ident.cfg is Unraid's own setting, on the flash, and is what the WebGUI's own clock uses — so
+// this follows the operator's configured timezone rather than asserting one, and a second host
+// in another zone gets its own. The /etc/localtime symlink is the fallback because it is what
+// the C library actually honours; UTC last, which is merely today's broken behaviour made
+// explicit rather than accidental.
+$_vv_tz = '';
+foreach (@file('/boot/config/ident.cfg') ?: [] as $_l) {
+    if (preg_match('/^\s*timeZone\s*=\s*"?([^"\r\n]+)"?/', $_l, $_m)) { $_vv_tz = trim($_m[1]); break; }
+}
+if ($_vv_tz === '') {
+    $_link = @readlink('/etc/localtime') ?: '';
+    if (preg_match('#zoneinfo/(.+)$#', $_link, $_m)) $_vv_tz = $_m[1];
+}
+// Validated before use. An unparseable value would otherwise raise a warning on every request
+// and leave the process in UTC anyway, which is the bug this exists to remove.
+if ($_vv_tz === '' || !@timezone_open($_vv_tz)) $_vv_tz = 'UTC';
+date_default_timezone_set($_vv_tz);
+define('VV_TIMEZONE', $_vv_tz);
+unset($_vv_tz, $_l, $_m, $_link);
+
 define('PLUGIN_CFG',  '/boot/config/plugins/varaverk/varaverk.cfg');
 
 $_vv_cfg = @parse_ini_file(PLUGIN_CFG) ?: [];