PHP5 warnings on core WordPress 2.8.4

  • szetlan

    (@szetlan)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    Recently upgraded my system to Mac OS X 10.6, which installs PHP 5.3.0. It also happened to remove my php.ini file, which reset my customizations to error logging, and I noticed lots of error messages like the following:

    Warning: strtotime(): 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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /Users/scott/Sites/usic.net/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35

    Yes, I can update my php.ini to include the date.timezone setting, but I strongly recommend that a call to date_default_timezone_set() be instrumented somewhere in WordPress. Given that the system asks me what time zone it’s in, I’m a little surprised not to see the system then set the default time zone anywhere.

    See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    ww.wp.xz.cn Admin

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Actually, date_default_timezone_set is used in WordPress, just not early enough to avoid those warnings.

    Your php.ini really should be updated, that’s the best policy. Adding your own date_default_timezone_set() call at the top of wp-config.php will work too.

    Mark Barnes

    (@mark8barnes)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    That’s not quite true. date_default_timezone_set is not called unless the city is set, which it isn’t on a new installation. The warnings only go away once the General options page has been saved for the first time.

    Incidentally a similar bug manifests itself with the uploads folder. That’s only set correctly when you save the miscellaneous settings for the first time.

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