MINOR: ZM PHP date.timezone Error [SOLVED]

[bkamen]

This one isn't a deal breaker, but Apache's logs scream and complain about this:

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PHP Warning:  strftime(): 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/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /var/www/html/zm/includes/functions.php on line 1427, (and then a referred URL that this forum complains about - so i removed most of but points to localhost/zm/index.php)

Might be nice to fix that one up (unless it's something with RHEL6)..

Cheers,

-ben

[mastertheknife]

There is no way to fix this. Recent PHP versions don't trust the system's timezone and want the administrator to edit php.ini and set the correct timezone there.

mastertheknife

[bkamen]

Derp.

Got it -- thanks.

-Ben

[caseystone]

The fix specifically is to find your php config file (php.ini in /etc or somewhere), find the part about date.timezone and change it to something like this:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = Europe/London

A funny thing that happened to me when doing this is I realized I did not actually have a php.ini file at all, and when I used the example 'production' one and made the timezone change, I could no longer load ZM's index.php -- it showed a blank page. Something in the default php.ini killed it (it wasn't set to safe mode). The fix for me (weak though it is) at that point was to create a php.ini file with ONLY the date section in there. Seems to work so far.

BTW, this is me making an attempt to get Zoneminder working on FreeBSD.

[bb99]

When the index page comes up blank change short_open_tag from 'off' to 'on' in php.ini. There's at least two entries so be sure to check and/or change them all.