When date.timezone in php.ini is commented out, it gives me:
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: main(): 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 ‘-8.0/no DST’ instead
Filename: controllers/helloworld.php
Line Number: 2
When I have
date.timezone = "America/Los_Angeles"
It gives me this:
Server error The website encountered an error while retrieving http://localhost/ci/index.php/helloworld. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly. Here are some suggestions: Reload this web page later. HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.
I am using php 5.3, CodeIgniter 2.0.0, and Apache 2.2.
Update 1: I tried loading a test.php without CodeIgniter, where the first 3 lines of test.php is
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date("l j of F Y h:i:s A");
And it works fine, different timezones also works fine too. So I suspect the problem is from CodeIgniter.
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Answer
If you Googled “CodeIgniter PHP 5.3” you would have found this article pretty quickly 🙂
http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/12/CodeIgniter-on-PHP-5.3
To fix this, you only need to edit the main index.php for your CodeIgniter application:
if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
{
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
}
This modification is something you will probably need to make for any CodeIgniter application running on PHP 5.3 and can easily be modified to your local timezone. There is a full list of supported timezones in the PHP manual here.