date("Y-m-d H:i:s",time())

[otuatail]

Hi I have used this for some time now everywhere on a website. (Very old)

 

Warning: date(): 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 the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /vhost/vhost15/d/e/s/desmond-otoole.co.uk/www/Forum/LogMe.php on line 58

 

 

Is there a quick fix for this if it is outdated. Preferably for the UK and observing summertime.

 

Thanks!

 

 

[Psycho]

Not sure exactly what you area asking. The warning message states what needs to be done: "You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function".

 

If you go to the manual page for the date() function you should be able to figure it out by looking at any of the examples.

 

Although, it is just a warning. Your error reporting in a production site should ignore warnings anyway. But, it would be best to 'fix' the problem.

[taquitosensei]

It says right in the error message what to do. 

date_default_timezone_set("Your timezone here");

Mine is "America/Chicago". 

You'll have to look yours up. 

[Barand]

You would use "Europe/London"

 

The best place to set the default timezone is in your php.ini file. That will save you from having to change every program.

[otuatail]

I don't have access to php.ini

 

I don't own the server it is on.

[Jacques1]

Have you read any of the replies?

 

The error message tells you exactly what you need to do. taquitosensei even posted the code. And Barand additionally told you the timezone you're in. What more do you need? A tutorial for using the keyboard?

[otuatail]

The problem I have is that I want the summer time now not GMT.

 

time(); is giving me a value of GMT.

[otuatail]

What I am doing is 

$value = time();

 

This is returning a GMT value;

 

date('I'); which isn't documented in the manual returns 0

 

date('e') returns +0000

 

Any suggestions?

 

I have also been told that as I am on a shared server anyone can mess around with the INI file.

 

This is mad.

Edited September 15, 2016 by otuatail

[Barand]

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");


$now = new DateTime();

echo 'Time now: ' . $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . '<br>';  //--> 2016-09-15 11:50:01



$now->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));

echo 'Time UTC: ' . $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . '<br>';  //--> 2016-09-15 10:50:01

[otuatail]

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");

 

This works ahead of the time();

 

Looks like I have to do it because some other sod might change it.

 

I used

 

$now = new DateTime();

echo 'Time now: ' . $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') ;

 

but got

 

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTime::__construct(): 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 the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone.' in /vhost/vhost15/d/e/s/desmond-otoole.co.uk/www/banking/LogMe.php:64 Stack trace: #0 /vhost/vhost15/d/e/s/desmond-otoole.co.uk/www/banking/LogMe.php(64): DateTime->__construct() #1 {main} thrown in /vhost/vhost15/d/e/s/desmond-otoole.co.uk/www/banking/LogMe.php on line 64

 

[Barand]

Did you forget the

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");

?