Timezone on php5 "Strict Standards: strtotime()" - Solved -

Tuesday 22 May 2007 6:51:59 pm

Hello

I'm looking at ez on php5 ( http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/unstable/2007-03-21-php5/ its not this url NB NB)
and I ran into som problem in the setup. It seem to me that either is the problem on the server time setup or in somewhere in ez. I'm installing ez on a hosted server so
I'm having problems getting info about the server setup. Anyone know if this may be a Ez "problem" in unstable, or is this solely a server issue?

This is the error msg:

Strict Standards: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /opt/lampp/htdocs/killhack/lib/ezutils/classes/ezdebug.php on line 898

Strict Standards: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /opt/lampp/htdocs/killhack/lib/ezutils/classes/ezdebug.php on line 898

If this is a server issue, a pointer to workaround in EZ would be nice since I have no controle over the hosted server environment.

Any help and pointers is very much appreciated

Wednesday 23 May 2007 6:02:37 am

With a little help from my god new mates i found on #ezpublish @ freenode.net the problem was solved

The problem was in the php.ini file you most go to:
and roll down to you se.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Date]
date.timezone = CET

and add [Date] date.timezone = CET and save and restart the webserver

I hope this can be useful for others

Thanks for help guys!

Thursday 11 October 2007 1:03:55 am

Thanks

Saturday 03 November 2007 3:18:18 am

If you look in this post:
http://ez.no/developer/forum/developer/ezpublish_unstable_php5_vers_configuration_problem/re_ezpublish_unstable_php5_vers_configuratio__6

Heath mentions a way to set it from your apache config files, so you might try setting it in your .htaccess file:

   php_value date.timezone America/Chicago 
   php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 
   php_value magic_quotes_runtime 0

If that doesn't work you can hack index.php and set the timezone in the beginning of the file. I know there is a example somewhere in the forum, but couldn't find it, so search for it (timezone) on php.net for an example!

EDIT: Instead of hacking, it is better to just set it in config.php. A php file you place in the root of the installation, witch is included by autoload.php. But if you only need one timezone setting for the whole installation, put the setting in settings/override/site.ini.append.php as mentioned by Knut and me bellow.

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Tuesday 25 December 2007 4:19:01 am

Thanks. This really helped.

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Tuesday 05 February 2008 5:52:38 am

> Add this at /settings/site.ini file next lines:

1. Put it in '/settings/override/site.ini.append.php' instead so you don't have to redo it each time you update eZ Publish!
2. the settings you are talking about is php.ini specific, not site.ini. If don't have access to change php.ini, then this is the setting you want to put in site.ini.append.php:

[TimeZoneSettings]
TimeZone=CET

3. The settings you placed in php.ini is commented out (';'), so they won't work.

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Saturday 17 May 2008 5:14:11 pm

I am having the same problem.. though it is when I try to install eZ Publish 4.0

I have tried a number of things in this thread (or what I interpret your instructions to be) but find either they're not working, or I am not understanding the directions well enough.. My specific error is
Strict Standards: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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/spora3/public_html/content/ezpublish-4.0.0/lib/ezutils/classes/ezdebug.php on line 879

and it cascades down the page, nicely, about 40 times before I get to the installation portion.. I am able to run through the install, even with the error messages, but after I complete installation when I hit the main page it times out with an eZ error. I'm not sure if this is related or not..

Could you please provide some clear instructions as to how to resolve this issue?

Thanks.

Tuesday 03 June 2008 8:42:03 pm

So this problem existed in an unstable version a year ago and is still present in the current stable release? That is disgraceful.

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Tuesday 03 June 2008 10:47:13 pm

Hi James

As Kristof points out it's a PHP config issue ( I wouldn't call it a problem ). There is nothing for eZ to do as the TZ for any installation could be different.

The only disgraceful thing is that you haven't setup your PHP installation correctly ;)

Cheers
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Thursday 05 June 2008 7:50:19 am

Bruce,
Thanks for moving my recommendation into the bug report. Perhaps disgraceful was a bit harsh but I just returned from DC Php where I was extolling the virtues of eZ Pub only to have everyone who I convinced to give a try come back to me reporting ugly errors on the first page. Not a good first impression and in my opinion very worthy of the eZ crew's attention.

Cheers.

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