Problem with Date.timezone setting.

[scalft]

I am getting the following message on every screen I visit with a date/time combination.

date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. 
Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead
[/var/www/html/zabbix/include/blocks.inc.php:380]

I have check the php.ini file. date.timezone is set to US/Central. I can't seem to figure out what I am missing.

Thanks,

Thad

[tchjts1]

What version of php are you using?
Is the date.timezone line uncommented?

Maybe try using one of the America time zones from this list:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php

[scalft]

Additional Info.

This is from a install of CentOS 5 update 4 fully patched.

PHP version 5.1.6

PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jan 13 2010 17:13:05) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies

Date.Timezone setting.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
date.timezone = 'America/Chicago'

[tchjts1]

Check that link above and see if there is a setting in the America list that would serve your purpose. Worth a try.

[scalft]

The timezone was just set to 'America/Chicago'. I re-tried it, and I still get the same behavior.

[tchjts1]

Strange indeed.

So, you are changing it to America/xxxxxxx and restarting httpd, and then the system is still saying you have no date.timezone set, and it is changing it back to America/Chicago?

FWIW, I do not use the tic marks around mine - America/Los_Angeles... that probably doesn't make a difference though, and looks like your system is inserting them without incident.

[scalft]

It was the 'quotes' that caused the problem. Everything is good now.

Thanks!!

[tchjts1]

Excellent. You're welcome.