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Hey all - I am getting an error on my CMS site that reads as this:

Warning: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'UTC/0.0/no DST' instead in /var/www/html/test-site/libs/utils.php on line 97.

So I went into that folder and placed this before any of the functions:

date.timezone = "America/New_York";

However, when i try to reload my page the entire site is down. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks

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  • What you did was place a php.ini directive into your PHP code, and those directives are themselves not valid PHP code, so you introduced a syntax error. Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 19:19
  • Agree with @Marc + when you put this line into php.ini don't use ; at the and of line. Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 19:57

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You can either choose to ignore the warning (which in most cases is fine), or explicitly set the time zone using date_default_timezone_set.

Writing date.timezone = "America/New_York"; isn't proper PHP, anyway.

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aha! I found that :

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

Did the trick

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No no no, this works but it's not the best method to do this, you should change the data.timezone within your php.ini file, and then restart apache or whatever server your using !
@Robert - I disagree. Even you set default.timezone in php.ini, PHP will try to 'guess' timezone before execution of every date/time function. Yes, it's good to set date.timezone in php.ini, but setting it again from php code is recommended. Even date_default_timezone_set(date_default_timezone_get()); makes sense. Look at this question and accepted answer. So I agree with @Sapp, this is the best way to avoid PHP 'guessing' timezone setting. @Sepp +1
sorry, i ment date.timezone in previous comment.

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