Strange date() behavior

[CmdGabriel]

Hi All,
we are using date() in several contexts in our development. Now we get a quie strange looking error message. Can someone tell me, where it comes from?

Error: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone setting. Please use 
the date.timezone steeting, the TZ environment variable or the 
date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you are used any of these methods
 and you are still getting this warning , you most likely misspelled the timezone 
identifier. We select 'Europe/Paris' for '2.0/DST' instead. 


Code: 2048

Does anybody know what#s happening here? We CAN use date without error in a small sample PHP on the same server.

And what is the "date_default_timezone_set()" function?

Regards
Gabriel

[NogDog]

CmdGabriel wrote:

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And what is the "date_default_timezone_set()" function?
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[man]date_default_timezone_set[/man]

PS: I believe that is an E_STRICT-level error, so strictly speaking (pun intended), if you are not concerned about the server's time setting, you could ignore it and make sure the deployed version does not have display_errors turned on (or at least has the error_reporting level set to a low enough level that strict warnings are not displayed). However, it certainly would not hurt to take the warning's advice and explicitly set your timezone via the date_default_timezone_set() function.

[CmdGabriel]

thanks!