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Bug #34385 phpinfo throws a strict standards warning on timezone
Submitted: 2005-09-06 05:41 UTC Modified: 2005-09-06 12:45 UTC
From: david at tulloh dot id dot au Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.1.0RC1 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-09-06 05:41 UTC] david at tulloh dot id dot au 
Description:
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phpinfo throws a E_STRICT error.  This is caused by PHP  guessing at the timezone.  I'm not sure that the error message belongs in the middle of the phpinfo output.

Reproduce code:
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php -a -n

<?php
error_reporting(E_STRICT);
phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);
?>

Expected result:
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phpinfo() should not throw errors, E_STRICT included.

Actual result:
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(CLI output, similar results through apache module)
...

date

date/time support => enabled

Strict Standards: phpinfo() [/phpmanual/function.phpinfo.html]: It is not safe to rely on the systems timezone settings, please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. We use 'America/New_York' for 'EST' instead. in /home/lod/Downloads/php-5.1.0RC1/- on line 2
Default timezone => America/New_York

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 [2005-09-06 08:06 UTC] derick@php.net 
Assigning to me, but not sure if we're going to change that. In your case it is actually good that it did this, as it shows that it incorrectly guessed "America/New_York", which uses the same abbreviation (EST) as Eastern Australia. So fix your setting :)
 [2005-09-06 09:56 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Where does it say phpinfo() can't throw errors? Nowhere, fix your setttings.
 [2005-09-06 12:45 UTC] david at tulloh dot id dot au 
It seemed a bit odd to me that a function, used properly would throw an error.

As for fixing the setting, you may have noticed that the reproduce code included the -n flag, the setting is correctly set in my php.ini.  However the setting is 'incorrect' in the default setup; it's also not documented in the supplied -recomended or -dist files.
 
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