[RESOLVED] Default timezone in php.ini is not recognized in my code

bwilhelm

Hello,

When I run a very simple script using mktime() to echo epoch time for any given time, I get the following warning:

Warning: mktime(): 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 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/btb_sandbox/date_time_unix.php on line 7

Looking into the php.ini file which my php install is using (according to phpinfo()), I see that date.timezone is already correctly set.

995 ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
996 ; http://php.net/date.timezone
997 date.timezone = 'America/Los_Angeles'

Clearly, the timezone identifier is not misspelled in php.ini. Must the timezone be declared explicitly within my php code if I want to use the mktime() function? I'm not sure where it's retrieving that value, 'PST/-8.0/no DST'.

I have to guess there is a very fundamental configuration I am overlooking somewhere, but it is not apparent to me.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben

bwilhelm

Restarting Apache was required after updating php.ini.

There's a reason I posted in the Newbies forum. 🙂

bradgrafelman

Do a phpinfo() and see which php.ini file it claims to be loading. Does it show the path to the same php.ini file you edited?

If so, did you restart your webserver (e.g. Apache) after making the change to php.ini?

EDIT: Posted a bit too late. :p

EDIT2: By the way... welcome to PHPBuilder! Don't forget to mark this thread resolved using the link on the Thread Tools menu.

bwilhelm

Thanks, Brad! 🙂

halojoy

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone

If you have set date.timezone in php.ini to 'America/Los_Angeles'
then it should work

I was going to mention restart the server after php.ini setting

Hope it is alright now.