Invalid date.timezone value 'Europe/Switzerland/Zurich' after upgrading zabbix 2.4.6

[mbeck]

Hi,

I made a upgrade of zabbix from 2.0.2 to 2.4.6.
My PHP is on version
php -v
PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11
Apche is on Apache/2.4.7
and my Ubuntu is on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

Everything went well like a charm without issues. The front end configuration/setup went without errors.

I am able to login to the front end and see everything but every page is showing multiple times the same error

like for ex


Idate(): Invalid date.timezone value 'Europe/Switzerland/Zurich', we selected the timezone 'UTC' for now
strtotime(): Invalid date.timezone value 'Europe/Switzerland/Zurich', we selected the timezone 'UTC' for now.
date(): Invalid date.timezone value 'Europe/Switzerland/Zurich', we selected the timezone 'UTC' for now

I have attached the dashboard page for ex. But the monitoring is going on well and no issues with that.
My /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini also looks good as below
[Date]
date.timezone = Europe/Switzerland/Zurich

does anyone has some ideas to correct there.? May be this is a bug. but i am not sure.

thankx for your info.
Beck

[mbeck]

Hi,
I found the solution also after digging a few forums. well i changed the following in php.ini (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini)

from date.timezone = Europe/Switzerland/Zurich
to
date.timezone = Europe/Zurich

and restarted the zabbix server.

all errors related to timezone are gone and my zabbix is now having the new dashboard clean, without any errors.


i am leaving this post here if someone comes across the same issue.

beck

[kloczek]

Hi,
I found the solution also after digging a few forums. well i changed the following in php.ini (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini)

from date.timezone = Europe/Switzerland/Zurich
to
date.timezone = Europe/Zurich

and restarted the zabbix server.

all errors related to timezone are gone and my zabbix is now having the new dashboard clean, without any errors.


i am leaving this post here if someone comes across the same issue.

beck

BTW. On some hosts php is uses by many applications and it may be not wise to put zabbix web frontend settings straight in global php.ini.
In such cases better is use apache per directory settings.
Example part which defines vhost and adds all php settings on directory bases which can be used on RH based Linuxes:

# cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf 
## New Zabbix Frontend cfg
Listen			zabbix.web:80
NameVirtualHost		zabbix.web:80

<VirtualHost zabbix.web:80>
	ServerName	 zabbix.web
	ServerAlias	monitoring.web
	DocumentRoot	"/var/www/zabbix"

	CustomLog logs/zabbix-access_log combined
	ErrorLog logs/zabbix-error_log
</VirtualHost>

<Directory "/var/www/zabbix/">
	Options		Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride	AuthConfig
	Order		allow,deny
	Allow		from all

	php_value max_execution_time	900
	php_value max_input_time	300
	php_value memory_limit		10G
	php_value post_max_size		32M
	php_value upload_max_filesize	5M
	php_value date.timezone		GMT
</Directory>