I can't figure this out. Tried doing some searches and found a couple of other people who have experienced this, but no solution was provided. I installed PhpED with the debugger and everything seemed to install properly. However, when I try to run a simple script:




I get the following error message:

"Error: E_WARNING
phpinfo(): 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 method and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for '-4.0/DST' instead at test.php line 2"

Any thoughts? Thanks!

OK. I figured out my error. Well, I don't know what caused it, but I just uncommented the following line:



Then restarted my webserver and it seems to work now.

The E_WARNING is displayed if you use date/time function without setting the timezone (either in php.ini or in PHP script). I would suggest to set date/time setting on each PHP script using ini_set() function. This way you will be sure, that the timezone is correct everytime. Just put this simple line on the top of your main PHP file:

Thanks for the tip. Is there any advantage to doing this as opposed to setting the "date.timezone" field in php.ini?

There is no difference on your local server. But you need to realize, that setting this in php.ini you are just configuring default settings for your local server. On the other hand setting this in PHP code, you are configuring server's environment on application's runtime. Realizing this, the advantage of setting it in PHP is that you set your own timezone on any server you deploy your application regardless the server's settings. Simply put, when you have this setting in PHP code, you do not need to care about server's configuration, which might be different or incorrect and your application will still run as you expect.

Makes sense. Thanks for the tip!