Timezone setting

[sfc]

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: 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. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/cernem5/public_html/includes/form_functions.php on line 2

 

I looked through all of the php.ini file and I can find this setting.  Any suggestions?

 

I contacted the guys at inmotion who are hosting my vps and they said they had to make a change on their server since I didn't have root access.

 

Is there a way in my coding to avoid this problem?  Here is the code that is causing all the problems:

<?php echo date("Y", time()); ?>

 

[bh]

Hi,

 

in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

 

in php.ini: date/Default timezone

[sfc]

I don't understand how to use this function with my code.  Do I put it in an include file for each page?

[bh]

Put it in your first script which always runs.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You can always add a line to your php.ini to set date.timezone = 'your value'

 

You can also set date.timezone in a .htaccess if php is running as an Apache Module or in a local php.ini when php is running as a CGI application.

[sfc]

That's what I did. I put it in the ini file. This is my first time running on a remote server so I'm not familiar with this....

 

Thanks!