Stop Warning: date() [function.date]: from localhost

Question

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

Answer 1

As the warning says...

use the date.timezone setting

Just configure this with your timezone in php.ini, and all will be well for all apps on your server.

EDIT If you are still having this problem after having configured this, you will probably find that your system uses more than one php.ini file. To find out which ini file is used for your web server, use phpinfo().

Answer 2

to remove this warning from your project

There are 2 ways to do so...

1) date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata'); include this file in your index.php file This will work only for your current project

2) date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata'); or inlude this file in your php.ini file This will work for every project

thnx :)

Answer 3

The reason it is happending on one server and not the other is the php.ini setting date.timezone=.

You would still need to pick an actual value though. You assuredly don't have one. Or in the wrong php.ini version (there's one for CLI and one for mod_php).

Answer 4

It works by setting

date.timezone = Asia/Calcutta

For details go to: PHP Documentation - Asia Timezones

Answer 5

As the other posters have mentioned, setting date.timezone in the php.ini file is the way to go. If you are still seeing the error about needing to set it, did you restart your web server (apache, IIS, etc) after setting the php.ini?

Also, the warning from phpinfo means the rest of the output should still be showing. Make sure you're editing the correct php.ini file according to the phpinfo() output.

That will likely get you working as you'd like.