Again, why can't we just bypass this whole argument by adding a configure option? Something like --date.default_timezone="America/Los_Angeles"? It could then build that in so it'll assume that if there's no php.ini or if it's just not set in there. Problem solved, everybody's use-case covered.
If you build php yourself from source there is always the option to throw (comment out) that one particular E_WARNING line ext/date/php_date.c.(that is something I do for example for mysqlnd which complains about non-existing character set on older sphinxsearch instances).
But if the OP is annoyed by typing "php -d date.timezone=... myfile.php" each time he could just make an alias (or doskey in win environment).
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