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Hello All,


I have done a google search for the above issue, but nothing has been found. I have been using ZM for years and love it. However today I have hit an issue I cant seem to fix.

I upgraded from ZM 1.32 today to 1.34 using ubuntu 18.04 server as the platform.

Now I cannot see anything on the OPTIONS - SYSTEM page to adjust my time zone as It is now running in UTC.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thans

James

Try using Firefox.

Firefox is showing the same results.

I did find the following message in /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Sun May 24 14:31:28.475351 2020] [php7:error] [pid 25790] [client 10.8.0.2:51250] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (America/Chicago) in /usr/share/zoneminder/www/skins/classic/views/options.php:406\nStack trace:\n#0 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/skins/classic/views/options.php(406): DateTimeZone->__construct('America/Chicago')\n#1 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/skins/classic/views/options.php(429): timezone_list()\n#2 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/index.php(282): require_once('/usr/share/zone...')\n#3 {main}\n thrown in /usr/share/zoneminder/www/skins/classic/views/options.php on line 406, referer: http://192.168.1.2/zm/


Any pointers to where its trying to get the DateTimeZone information would be awesome and much appreciated.

That's interesting.. America/Chicago is perfectly valid.

If timezone is set in php.ini, ZM should still just use that.

Maybe try removing the AMerica/Chicago setting from php.ini....

I'll try to reproduce it

Thanks for the reply. I had to remove that earlier, as all the sudden the ZM console stopped working all together. Once I removed that config, I could bring the console up, and all the functions are working, but the options - config page....

Very odd indeed.



root@zoneminder:~# locate php.ini
/etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
/etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
/usr/lib/php/7.2/php.ini-development
/usr/lib/php/7.2/php.ini-production
/usr/lib/php/7.2/php.ini-production.cli


root@zoneminder:~# cat /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini | grep date.timezone
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone = "America/Chicago"



root@zoneminder:~# cat /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini | grep date
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone =
; http://php.net/date.default-latitude
;date.default_latitude = 31.7667
; http://php.net/date.default-longitude
;date.default_longitude = 35.2333
; http://php.net/date.sunrise-zenith
;date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333
; http://php.net/date.sunset-zenith
;date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333
; Default date format.
ibase.dateformat = "%Y-%m-%d"
; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally stored URLs containing ids.
; How frequently the upload progress should be updated.
; The minimum delay between updates, in seconds
;opcache.validate_timestamps=1
; memory storage allocation. ("1" means validate once per second, but only
; once per request. "0" means always validate)
;opcache.revalidate_freq=2
;opcache.revalidate_path=0
; Validate cached file permissions.
;opcache.validate_permission=0
;opcache.validate_root=0
root@zoneminder:~#

I would like to thank everybody who gave me tips and pointers.

Not sure how, but while investigating the timezone using timedatectl,

I noticed that it was not beahing correctly when set to America/Chicago.

timedatctl behaved correctly when using another timezone, so I copied a new Chicago file from an existing Ubuntu 18.04 system to the system.

reset the timezone to America/Chicago

That worked correctly with timedatectl.

Then I was able to access the OPTIONS - SYSTEM config page. Very odd stuff.

so set the timezone on that page, and rebooted the system.

Now everything is working correctly..

Thanks

James