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Why are Canadian timezones are gone in PHP 8.5?

After upgrading to PHP 8.5 the timezone changed to UTC. After working through this, I discovered that the only closest timezone left is "America/Vancouver" but this is the wrong timezone because it has timezone changes that are not the same.

Why was "Canada/Pacific" removed from PHP? We're not part of America, and our timezones are not the same.

Thanks.

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u/RandolfRichardson — 8 days ago

"Waterfall" in Ancient (old) Egyptian?

What is the best way to translate the word "waterfall" (e.g., as in water falling down the side of a mountain, boulders, etc., as seen in coniferous forests)?

I ran some searches and read through some word lists that I found, but didn't find anything aside from "cataracts" which seems to be controversial (because it apparently wasn't part of Ancient Egyptian languages; I don't know whether this is true though).

If there isn't a word for "waterfall," then what would be a good way to combine a few words or construct a new word for this? I did find a the word "mu" (or "moo") for water, but I don't know if adding "falling" or "flowing" (or something better) can even be combined with it somehow.

Any suggestions or insight is appreciated as Ancient Egyptian is new to me.
Thank you.

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u/RandolfRichardson — 19 days ago

How to get Google Meets to stop calling me from 437-781-4585?

For the past 10 minutes Google Meets has been calling my land line repeatedly from 437.781.4585, and tells me that I'm joining a conference call, and then I can hear different people talking each time but they can't hear me.

Their system is broken, does not provide any options to stop the calls, and I would very much like for this to stop. (My land line can't block the number because apparently the ANI code is different from the Caller ID.)

Short of calling the telecommunications regulator here in Canada, is there a phone number at Google that I can call to speak with someone who can stop their systems?

Thanks.

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u/RandolfRichardson — 2 months ago

GMail intermittently slow since 2026-Jun-10/20:00 Pacific Time

For the past ~12 hours GMail has been exhibiting intermittently slow performance in the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley throughout British Columbia, Canada.

Sometimes the slow performance will continue for more than 5 minutes.

Have others been noticing this in other parts of the world as well? I'm curious as to whether it's only occurring in our region as most of our clients are here (and we've been receiving reports from some of them since yesterday).

Thanks.

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u/RandolfRichardson — 2 months ago

Fake virus pop-up warnings from orbitlark.co.nz scam web site

A friend is receiving pop-ups every 5 seconds from "orbitlark.co.nz" after using Microsoft Edge (they normally use Google Chrome, but Microsoft still finds their way in sometimes), and I disabled the notifications in MS-Edge, but I'm concerned that the crap is still running in MS-Edge in the background.

How can I make sure this is really gone for good? Anti-virus and security software is up-to-date (commercial software; not Windows 10's built-in basic "Defender" software), so I suspect there's some sort of automation/worker junk added to MS-Edge and I want to be sure that it's really gone (there doesn't seem to be any option in MS-Edge's settings to review this sort of thing).

Thanks.

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u/RandolfRichardson — 3 months ago

How to stop videos from popping up when switching tabs?

When switching away from a tab that is actively playing a video, a smaller version pops up in front and interrupts all the keystrokes I want to type.

How can I disable this feature? I couldn't find anything in the settings for pop-up videos or picture-in-picture settings. Thanks.

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u/RandolfRichardson — 3 months ago