Comment 15 for bug 1069529

12.04 precise does seem affected by this or something like it:

$ cat /etc/timezone
Australia/Sydney
$ grep date.timezone /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone =
$ php -r 'print date_default_timezone_get();'
Antarctica/Macquarie$

I don't understand why PHP is so special it needs to be told indivdually about my time zone, for each installed interpreter.