date It is not safe to rely on the system s timezone settings

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I got this error when I requested to update the PHP version from 5 2 17 to PHP 5 3 21 on the server    lt div style  border 1px solid  990000 padding-left 20px margin 0 0 10px 0   gt    lt h4 gt A PHP Error was encountered lt  h4 gt    lt p gt Severity  Warning lt  p gt   lt p gt 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 lt  p gt   lt p gt Filename  libraries Log php lt  p gt   lt p gt Line Number  86 lt  p gt    lt  div gt  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  lt div style  border 1px solid  990000 padding-left 20px margin 0 0 10px 0   gt    lt h4 gt A PHP Error was encountered lt  h4 gt    lt p gt Severity  Warning lt  p gt   lt p gt 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 lt  p gt   lt p gt Filename  libraries Log php lt  p gt   lt p gt Line Number  99 lt  p gt    lt  div gt

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This answer above from CtrlX is the correct answer, but it may not work completely. I added this line to my php.ini file:

date.timezone = "America/Los_Angeles"

but it did not remove the PHP error for all my files because some of my PHP scripts are in subfolders. So I had to edit .htaccess file to setup php.ini to be used recursively (in subfolders):

suphp_configpath /home/account_name/public_html

where account_name is your cpanel account name and public_html is the folder your php.ini file is in.

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This issue has been bugging me for SOME time as im trying to inject a  createbucket php  script into composer and i keep being told my time-zone is incorrect   In the end the only thing that fixed the issue was to    sudo nano  etc php ini  Search for timezone   Date    Defines the default timezone used by the date functions   http   www php net manual en datetime configuration php ini date timezone date timezone   UTC   Ensure you remove the    Then finally     sudo service httpd restart   And you ll be good to go

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I had to put it in double quotes   date default timezone set  America Los Angeles       default time zone

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A quick solution whilst your rectify the incompatibilities  is to disable error reporting in your index php file   Insert the line below into your index php below define      JEXEC     1     error reporting  E ERROR   E PARSE   E CORE ERROR   E CORE WARNING   E COMPILE ERROR   E COMPILE WARNING

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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   The list of timezones can be found at http   www php net manual en timezones php

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In my particular case  I have PHP configured to use PHP-FPM  FastCGI Process Manager   When executing phpinfo   from CLI I saw correct timezone that I had set in the php ini  however it was still incorrect in the browser and causing my code to fail  I simply needed to restart the php-fpm service on the server   service rh-php56-php-fpm restart   You may also need to restart the httpd service if you edited the php ini  service httpd restart

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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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Justis pointed me to the right direction  but his code did not work for me  This did      set the default timezone if not set at php ini if   date default timezone get  date timezone             insert here the default timezone     date default timezone set  America New York        Documentation  http   www php net manual en function date-default-timezone-get php  This solution is not only for those who does not have full system access  It is necessary for any script when you provide it to anyone else but you  You never know on what server the script will run when you distribute it to someone else

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I had this error running php-fpm in a chroot jail   I tried creating etc php ini and  usr share zoneinfo in the chroot directory  but it just didn t work   I even tried strace-ing the php-fpm daemons to see what file they were missing - nothing jumped out   So in case Google brings you here because you get this error when using php-fpm configured for chroot  you can probably fix it by adding this line to  etc php-fpm d www conf in the ENV section   env TZ    America New York   A php-fpm restart is normally required for it to take effect   Hope this helps somebody out there

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I always keep this line inside codeigniter s root index php So that my code works at any server  date default timezone set  Asia Dhaka      List of Supported Timezones here

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If you are using CodeIgniter and can t change php ini  I added the following to the beginning of index php   date default timezone set  GMT

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I am hosting my EC2 and S3 bucket in us-west-2  Oregon  region  When I was calling  s3client- gt listBuckets   to list existing buckets in my php  I was getting exception -  Uncaught exception  Exception  with message  DateTime    construct    It is not safe to rely on the system s timezone settings       I made below changes to make it work  Sharing these details in case someone is facing similar issue and any of above answers have not helped    Based on documentation   AWS  Configuring Network Time Protocol  NTP   I confirmed ntpd service status is fine by running ntpstat command  If you get error  this link helps you to know what is going wrong  Opened  etc php ini file  some may have it in different path based on version of php installed  and found that date timezone was not set to any value and also it was commented by default  I un-commented by removing     before this line and set its value to  UTC  and saved the file  Restarted http and ntp daemons using sudo service httpd restart and sudo service ntpd restart commands    After this I am able to list buckets successfully without any exception  Hope this helps

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In addition to setting the date timezone    as mentioned in several answers  I found an error in the php ini file that was keeping it from getting to the date timezone  The way I found it was by running php from the command line in a terminal  this caused an error to be reported at line 114   In my case I had uncommented a setting for displaying errors that had      between 2 values   It did not like it  I removed one of the values and the    and everything was good after that

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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    Here is the list of supported timezones

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lt   date default timezone set  Europe Istanbul      gt    For php  or your location

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In your connection page put a code like  this date default timezone set  Africa Johannesburg    based on your current location

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You can set the timezone in your  htaccess file  php value date timezone UTC

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If you using Plesk  try it  First  Open PHP Settings  at the bottom of page  change date timezone from DEFAULT to UTC

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lt   print gmdate  Y       gt     instead of    lt   print date  Y       gt    worked for me  shows current year and no more shows the error message    Thanks to Chris above

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If you don t have access to the file php ini  create or edit a  htaccess file in the root of your domain or sub and add this  generated by cpanel     lt IfModule mime module gt  AddType application x-httpd-ea-php56  php  php5  phtml  lt  IfModule gt    lt IfModule php5 module gt  php value date timezone  America New York   lt  IfModule gt    lt IfModule lsapi module gt  php value date timezone  America New York   lt  IfModule gt

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A simple method for two time zone     lt  php   date   new DateTime  2012-07-05 16 43 21   new DateTimeZone  Europe Paris       date default timezone set  America New York      echo date  Y-m-d h iA    date- gt format  U          2012-07-05 10 43AM    gt

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There are two options for the resolve this   First  change into the php ini file and put default timezone  date timezone    America New York    Once  you have set the timezone in php ini restart the server  Secondly  Change the run time assign time zone based on your need  date default timezone set  America New York

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If these are not your options   Modifying php ini  Adding date default timezone call    Instead of date you could use gmdate   I have used gmdate   Y    when I needed a year for a copyright snipplet

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For docker user  Create a local timezone ini file in your project  set up the config in docker-compose yml        volumes          -    docker config timezone ini  usr local etc php conf d timezone ini    timezone ini      date timezone Australia Sydney

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