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Posted by Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points

PHP Warning: date() ???

PHP 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 the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in F:\CastSystem\webroot\Castillo System\index.php on line 2896

Can someone explain why im getting this on my website? I know it is an error but I dont know where to get start to get it fix... Thanks and God Bless.

4 Answers

Kit Pierce
Kit Pierce
2,721 Points

You can find the syntax for setting the timezone here on this PHP.net reference page: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

Just curious, though. This is just a warning. They can usually be ignored. Is it causing your script to bail? If you're seeing warnings in the output on your website, then you need to adjust your display_errors in your php.ini. For any kind of production environment, you ought to set that to display_errors = Off.

Jacques Vincilione
Jacques Vincilione
17,292 Points
Jacques Vincilione
Jacques Vincilione
17,292 Points

Also, it's on line 2896 of your index.php file. I'd look there and fix the issue :D

J.L. Sparreboom
J.L. Sparreboom
3,241 Points
J.L. Sparreboom
J.L. Sparreboom
3,241 Points

You probably have to set the default timezone in the php.ini file on your server.

It should look something like this:

[Date]
;Defines the default timezone used by the date functions 
;http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = "Europe/Amsterdam" // change this timezone to yours and your message should be history

Make sure that after the changes made to the php.ini file you reset your (web)server. Which in my case is IIS which I can simply reset with opening a cmd prompt and typing iisreset. If you use a different server it shouldn't vary much. Just do a google search on hom to reset your (web)server

Also just to double check you can see if php accepted the change by creating an info file 

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

And call it in your browser press ctr + F (if your on a windows pc) and type date. You should see additional information beloning to the header DATE. One of the should be "Default timezone" with right next to it your given timezone.

Another way to get rid of this message is to set the default timezone in the called php file itself. Though I recommend the first approach.

Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points
Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points

echo date('Y');

to

date_default_timezone_set('UTC'); echo "Site Content &copy 2013-" . date("Y");

Thank you guys for all of your help and information that you given to me, I learned a lot. the message are gone... :D Thanks Again and God Bless...