“date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings…”

Question

I got this error when I requested to update the PHP version from 5.2.17 to PHP 5.3.21 on the server.

Answer 1

You probably need to put the timezone in a configuration line in your php.ini file. You should have a block like this in your php.ini file:

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

If not, add it (replacing the timezone by yours). After configuring, make sure to restart httpd (service httpd restart).

Here is the list of supported timezones.