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Hello,

Been using zoneminder for years.

I did a fresh install of CentOS 7.3 last Wednesday and installed zoneminder 1.30 from the centos repo.

Has been running fine until today.

Around 12:15 today, I began getting the error: ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php's date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone

The timezone is correctly set in php.ini

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

ll /etc/localtime

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Jan 25 19:05 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York

Here's where it started:

Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zmc_dvideo0[13838]: INF [Den: 57000 - Capturing at 29.41 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zmc_dvideo1[13864]: INF [Deck: 57000 - Capturing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zmc_dvideo2[13890]: INF [Front: 57000 - Capturing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zma_m1[13847]: INF [Den: 57000 - Analysing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zmc_dvideo3[13917]: INF [Street: 57000 - Capturing at 29.41 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zma_m2[13873]: INF [Deck: 57000 - Analysing at 29.41 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zma_m3[13899]: INF [Front: 57000 - Analysing at 29.41 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zma_m4[13925]: INF [Street: 57000 - Analysing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:41 ts130 web_php[15770]: FAT [ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php's date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone]
Jan 31 12:15:46 ts130 web_php[15770]: FAT [ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php's date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone]
Jan 31 12:15:47 ts130 web_php[15770]: FAT [ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php's date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone]
Jan 31 12:15:52 ts130 zmc_dvideo0[13838]: INF [Den: 58000 - Capturing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:52 ts130 zmc_dvideo1[13864]: INF [Deck: 58000 - Capturing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zmc_dvideo2[13890]: INF [Front: 58000 - Capturing at 29.41 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zma_m1[13847]: INF [Den: 58000 - Analysing at 29.41 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zmc_dvideo3[13917]: INF [Street: 58000 - Capturing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zma_m2[13873]: INF [Deck: 58000 - Analysing at 30.30 fps]
Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zma_m3[13899]: INF [Front: 58000 - Analysing at 30.30 fps]

There is only one version of php installed.

Been working on this since it started. I'm stuck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

There is only one version of php installed.

Are you 100% sure? I have a dedicated server with only the basics packages and I have 4 php.ini files on my computer (Ubuntu 14.04)
/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
/etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
/etc/php5/cli/php.ini

You could find more files called php.ini by issuing the command find / -name php.ini (just trying to help here, do not know your linux skills).
On my system, the timezone is set on 3 out of 4 files:
$ grep timezone /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
date.timezone = "Europe/Madrid"
$ grep timezone /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
;date.timezone =
$ grep timezone /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
date.timezone = "Europe/Madrid"
$ grep timezone /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
date.timezone = "Europe/Madrid"

So I would do those checks, maybe you need to setup your timezone in more than one file.

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

I ran locate php.ini and didn't find anything except one that is in a backup directory/partition I made after I backed up my old 6.8 system and did a fresh install of 7.3 I extracted the backup to help configure the new system.

phpinfo.php reports its using /etc/php.ini

I ran the command you provided and got the same result.

Something seems to be overridding it.

Thanks

Added

php_value date.timezone "America/New_York"

to /etc/http/conf.modules.d/10-php.conf

Hi I having the same problem with my rasbian installation.