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Bug #54559 php ignoring date.timezone setting
Submitted: 2011-04-18 17:05 UTC Modified: 2011-04-18 21:22 UTC
From: jistanidiot at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.3.6 OS: RHEL 6
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-04-18 17:05 UTC] jistanidiot at gmail dot com 
Description:
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In my php.ini file I have

date.timezone = "America/New_York"

However I keep getting the error 

Warning: phpinfo() [function.phpinfo]: 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 'America/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /var/www/html/gallery3/test.php on line 2

and this isn't just for phpinfo but everything I've tried dealing with dates and times.

The only workaround I've found is to put 
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
at the start of all my scripts.

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 [2011-04-18 17:44 UTC] dtajchreber@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-04-18 17:44 UTC] dtajchreber@php.net 
Are you modifying the right configuration file for the SAPI you're using? 
phpinfo() and php --ini will show you which configuration files are loaded... is 
that the file you have date.timezone = "America/New_York" in?
 [2011-04-18 21:22 UTC] jistanidiot at gmail dot com 
Ah you're right it is looking for php.ini in /usr/local/etc which is not the right place.  I've recompiled and added the option --with-config-file-path=/etc and now everything is good.  Thanks!
 
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