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There's a Centos6.3 system. Apache 2.2.15 + mod_fcgid + PHP 5.3.3

There's a problem with date.timezone value. It's mentioned in the global /etc/php.ini like this:

date.timezone = "Europe/Moscow"

And doesn't mentioned in user's local php.ini. As a result, I'm getting lot's of warnings like:

Warning: date() [function.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 'Europe/Helsinki' for 'EEST/3.0/DST' instead in ...

Including the date.timezone parameter into the user's php.ini solves the problem, but I don't think, that it's the best solution.

Maybe someone have faced this problem and can give an advice?

Thanks!

P.S. Creating /etc/php.d/timezone.ini with the timezone info aslo does nothing:(

mega.venik
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  • What's the output of `php -i`, and how does it compare to `php -i -c /path/to/user.ini`. We're looking for **Configuration File (php.ini) Path**, **Loaded Configuration File**, and **Scan this dir for additional .ini files** settings. – emcconville Oct 25 '12 at 21:00
  • From root: `php -i | less` Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc; Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php.ini; Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /etc/php.d; Additional .ini files parsed =>; `php -i -c /path/to/users/php.ini | less` Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc; Loaded Configuration File => /var/www/php-bin/badho159/php.ini; Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /etc/php.d; Additional .ini files parsed => – mega.venik Oct 25 '12 at 21:10
  • Sorry for the formatting:( – mega.venik Oct 25 '12 at 21:14

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You will need to add the date.timezone record for each user's ini file. After some experiments, it appears that date timezone will default to global value, but still issue the E_NOTICE and/or E_STRICT or E_WARNING.

Testing global setting 

bash~> php -r 'print ini_get("date.timezone").PHP_EOL;'
Europe/Moscow

bash~> php -r 'print date_default_timezone_get().PHP_EOL;'
Europe/Moscow

Testing user.ini without date.timezone set

bash~> php -c /path/to/user.ini -r 'print ini_get("date.timezone").PHP_EOL;'
""

bash~> php -c /path/to/user.ini -r 'print date_default_timezone_get().PHP_EOL;'
Warning: ... We selected 'Europe/Moscow' for 'EEST/4.0/DST' instead in Command line code on line 1

Europe/Moscow

The only other alternative would be to require each application to set the default timezone programmatically, but that's unrealistic & much more effort.

if(!ini_get('date.timezone')) {
    date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Moscow');
}
emcconville
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  • Hi! Sounds interesting. But I've tested it on my server and get the same result: `We selected 'Europe/Helsinki' for 'EEST/3.0/DST' instead in` and it shows `Europe/Helsinki`. I don't know, what is it's choice depends on, but I have `EEST` global timezone on my server. What is yours? Could you please repeat the test with another timezone in `/etc/php.ini`? – mega.venik Oct 26 '12 at 18:54