Timezone Issue

[chrisalbon]

Since installing Pico, I get this issue on the top of every page:

Warning: strtotime() [function.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 /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 166

Warning: date() [function.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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 166

Warning: strtotime() [function.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 /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 166

Warning: date() [function.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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 166

Warning: strtotime() [function.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 /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 234

Warning: date() [function.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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 234

Warning: strtotime() [function.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 /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 234


Warning: date() [function.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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 234

Warning: strtotime() [function.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 /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 234

Warning: date() [function.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/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /hsphere/local/home/livenoma/writemorefaster.com/lib/pico.php on line 234

[myhonor16]

this has to do with the recent versions of php
just add date_default_timezone_set('US/Eastern'); to index.php

[fuzzyfox]

Surely its better to ensure that your php configuration is correct rather than try and force timzone changes in the code.

Check your php.ini file. Its pretty good to not tie timezones to applications where possible.

[andrewjomelia]

I encountered a similar issue that was resolved by revising my server timezone in php.ini. All other adjustments to the time can be made from that baseline.

[jgnmoose]

This stumped me for a bit until I read this thread. On OSX Mavericks you have to copy the php.ini.default and set the time zone.

sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini

Uncomment and set date.timezone

 date.timezone='America/Denver'

Restart apache

sudo apachectl restart

Everything was good to go after that.

[dav-m85]

@theshka well I find a bit harsh to close all issues without explaining quickly why to the community. 👎

[theshka]

Many of these threads are 2 years old with no new activity. In the interest of cleaning up I quickly reviewed the threads and closed any that I thought were resolved or abandoned. I will gladly reopen any issue or pull request anyone raises issue with.

Regarding this thread specifically, the config.php.template file now contains date_default_timezone_set('UTC'); and I figured this issue was resolved.

Thanks, I hope this clears up any confusion @dav-m85

[dav-m85]

@theshka Just pointing this out. Anyway, thanks for the cleanup and making the repository live again 🎉

[theshka]

I'm really glad to have the opportunity to help stimulate a new dialog regarding Pico. Your input is highly valuable and I've noticed your participation in many threads; equally glad to see you're still around @dav-m85 :)