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PHP Configuration: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings
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My first question here at stackoverflow (please be nice :P)

Why is my apache showing this error?

Severity: Warning

Message: 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

Environment

I’m using MacOS Mountain Lion’s (10.8.2) Apache.

Things I’ve tried

• I’ve tried to rename my /etc/php.ini.default to /etc/php.ini but when I do, php won’t compile anymore.

• I’ve also tried to uncomment this line (in the php.ini):

  date.timezone = ‘Europe/Berlin’

But it doesn’t do anything. As soon as I restart apache the php stops working.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is PHP message, not Apache. And it is because, as messages indicates, of misconfiguration of your PHP. Edit your correct php.ini file (usually, it ends in /etc/php5/<FLAVOUR>/php.init, where “FLAVOUR” can be apache2, cli or (most likely) cgi (or cgi-bin), for example /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Then uncomment date.timezone line and put your timezone, i.e.

date.timezone = Europe/Berlin