On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:42:07 +1300, si...@welsh.co.nz (Simon J Welsh) wrote:

>On 5/03/2011, at 8:29 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote:
>
>> After a long battle to get my system back on air after a hard disk crash, I 
>> got PHP 5.3.5
>> running under Apache 2.2.3. I now get a diagnostic every time I call date(), 
>> complaining
>> about a missing parameter. The manual states that the second parameter is 
>> optional, and
>> even phpinfo doesn't know about this new requirement, as it contains the 
>> same diagnostic:
>> 
>> "Warning: phpinfo(): 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 'Australia/Melbourne' 
>> for
>> '11.0/DST' instead in D:\Websites\index.php on line 1 Warning: phpinfo(): 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 'Australia/Melbourne' for '11.0/DST' instead in
>> D:\Websites\index.php on line 1 ".
>> 
>> Is this a bug, or a new requirement we will have to get used to?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Roger Riordan AM
>
>It's not complaining about a missing parameter, it's complaining about the 
>lack of a specified timezone.
>
>This warning was introduced in PHP5.1, and you either need to set the 
>date.timezone INI setting, either in your php.ini or by using ini_set(), or by 
>passing a valid timezone to date_default_timezone_set() before calling any 
>other date-related functions.
>---
>Simon Welsh
>Admin of http://simon.geek.nz/
>
>Who said Microsoft never created a bug-free program? The blue screen never, 
>ever crashes!
>
>http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/gimme.cgi?wid=81d520e5e

Thanks for this.  I have put date_default_timezone_set() at the start of my 
program, which
clears up all my bugs, but leaves the bug in PHP.ini. This doesn't worry me.

And now I know where my son found the "10 types of people" T-shirt. 
Unfortunately I seldom
wear T-shirts, and my friends wouldn't get the joke anyway.

With my best wishes,


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