Question

i have a login script in that i check if a certain timeperiod has passed or not. to realize that i have a timestamp that i fetch with strtotime from my db so that i easily can add to this time/string a value of seconds to check if this specific date/time has passed.

yesterday i updated to php 5.3. now i get an error message:

Warning: strtotime() [function.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 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /xxx/xxx/xxxx/xxx/login.php on line xx

which realates on this line:

$DOA = strtotime($row->DOA);

the question is, how can i use:

date.timezone = "Europe/Berlin"
date.default_latitude = 52.5194
date.default_longitude = 13.4067

to convert the timestamp

$row->DOA

that i have to get as a string. or is this:

date.timezone = "Europe/Berlin"
date.default_latitude = 52.5194
date.default_longitude = 13.4067

just an information that i should add because it is said that

We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead...

is used.

if there is somebody who could give me advise to solve this i really would appreciate.

Answer 1

I think its just that PHP timezone isn’t set. So you can do that in php.ini or declare it in your php file.

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
$DOA = strtotime($row->DOA);

See if that eliminates your error.