Question

I am using date function in my php script like this

 $doy = date('z') + 1;
 $edition = date('Y') . $doy;

On my local machine its not giving me any warning but on my staging server it gives the following warning why is it so . How can I remove this ?

Message: date() [function.date]: 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 ‘Europe/Paris’ for ‘2.0/DST’ instead

Answer 1

You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.

That’s exactly what you must do…

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

Or in php.ini:

date.timezone = Europe/Paris

Obviously you can use whatever timezone you want.