“date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings…”

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“date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings…”

I got this error when I requested to update the PHP version from 5.2.17 to PHP 5.3.21 on the server.

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<h4>A PHP Error was encountered</h4>



<p>Severity: Warning</p>

<p>Message:  date(): 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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead</p>

<p>Filename: libraries/Log.php</p>

<p>Line Number: 86</p>



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Warning: date(): 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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /filelocation right here/system/libraries/Log.php on line 86



Warning: date(): 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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /filelocation right here/system/libraries/Log.php on line 99

<div style="border:1px solid #990000;padding-left:20px;margin:0 0 10px 0;">



<h4>A PHP Error was encountered</h4>



<p>Severity: Warning</p>

<p>Message:  date(): 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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead</p>

<p>Filename: libraries/Log.php</p>

<p>Line Number: 99</p>



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timezone php

3 years ago by vishaljlf39

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**rahul07** · Answer 1 · 2021-07-29T12:44:52

You probably need to put the timezone in a configuration line in your php.ini file. You should have a block like this in your php.ini file:



[Date]

; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions

; <http>php.net/date.timezone

date.timezone = America/New_York

If not, add it (replacing the timezone by yours). After configuring, make sure to restart httpd (service httpd restart).

**RoliMishra** · Answer 2 · 2021-08-02T12:18:56

If you cannot modify your php.ini configuration, you could as well use the following snippet at the beginning of your code:

date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Lagos');//or change to whatever timezone you want

**pankajshivnani123** · Answer 3 · 2021-08-03T12:19:06

Add the following in your index.php file. I first came across this when I moved my application from my XAMPP server to Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.4...

I would advise you do it in your index.php file instead of the php.ini file.

if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )

{

    date_default_timezone_set('GMT');

}

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“date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings…”

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