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#11791 date() [function.date]: It is not safe

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 02 April 2012 07:54 CDT

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Just backed up to a new host using latest joomla 1.5. Everything is OK except this error message on every page:

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_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.

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nicholas
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Please ask your host to supply the timezone the server is located in in the server's php.ini file. Apparently, your host never bothered editing the php.ini file, so they just left the default file which doesn't specify a timezone at all. FWIW, Joomla! 1.6 and later will automatically fix that, by supplying the user-defined timezone.

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