Re: timezone

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Jonathan Sundquist <jsundquist@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I have a client that has an app the runs with PHP 5.1.6. They want to >> upgrade to 5.3.3. First issue I ran into, they have a line of code >> that is: >> >> $deftz = date("T"); >> >> I'm getting this for that line: >> >> [Mon Apr 15 10:44:16 2013] [error] [client 10.7.14.21] PHP 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 'America/Denver' for >> 'MDT/-6.0/DST' instead in /home/www/itrade-dev/defs.inc on line 349 >> >> So I changed it to >> >> $deftz = date.timezone; >> >> and now I get: >> >> [Mon Apr 15 10:49:35 2013] [error] [client 10.7.14.21] PHP Notice: >> Use of undefined constant date - assumed 'date' in >> /home/www/itrade-dev/defs.inc on line 349 >> [Mon Apr 15 10:49:35 2013] [error] [client 10.7.14.21] PHP Notice: >> Use of undefined constant timezone - assumed 'timezone' in >> /home/www/itrade-dev/defs.inc on line 349 >> >> Why is this undefined? >> > You need to set the default time zone in this fashion, > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php But I don't know the timezone - I'm trying to get it so I can convert times I get from the database to a user requested timezone.