“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

If you cannot modify your php.ini configuration, you could as well use the following snippet at the beginning of your code:

date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Lagos');//or change to whatever timezone you want

The list of timezones can be found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php.