Question

I am getting the getdate(); PHP parse error below on every page of my Etomite install.

Since I tried setting my server timezone to EST/EDT but the error persists. I also searched the Etomite forum and StackOverflow but could not find a solution.

Note: The server has recently been updated to PHP 5.3.6

Here’s the error, any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Etomite encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »

PHP error debug
Error:  getdate(): 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/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead 
Error type/ Nr.:    Warning - 2 
File:   /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxxxxxx.ca/httpdocs/manager/includes/visitor_logging.inc.php 
Line:   81 
Line 81 source: $accesstime = getdate(); 

Parser timing
MySQL:  0.0000 s s  (0 Requests)
PHP:    0.0086 s s 
Total:  0.0086 s s

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Answer 1

PHP will report an E_STRICT error when the timezone isn’t specified. In your case, the offending call occurs on line 81 of visitor_logging.inc.php.

Somewhere before that file is included, you can set the timezone with the following call:

// Use your own correct time zone
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');