date_default_timezone_set()

[johnnyk]

Weird problem:

I have a file that I include on every page of my site that looks like this:
[code]
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('US/Eastern');
//functions and variables and what not
?>
[/code]

When I require() that file from a page, it loads fine. But when I require() that file from /cron/main.php (outside the public directory), I get an error that says something like "Call to undefined function date_default_timezone_set()".
If it means anything, main.php is run by a...you guessed it...cron. main.php also require()s two other files, and they get included fine.

Any idea?

(Yay formatting!)

[ronverdonk]

In some other form I saw the following tip:
[quote]I did come across the putenv function

$timeZone = "TZ=US/Eastern";
putenv( $timeZone );

seems to work for php date/time and sql statements.[/quote]

Worth a try?

Ronald  8)

[johnnyk]

I read that putenv() has some problems or something. But why isn't d_d_t_s() working with the cron?