“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

Add the following in your index.php file. I first came across this when I moved my application from my XAMPP server to Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.4...

I would advise you do it in your index.php file instead of the php.ini file.

if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
{
    date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
}