Re: [PHP] timezone

You don't know which timezone the server is in? That's what it wants.

Larry Martell <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Jonathan Sundquist
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Larry Martell
><[email protected]>
>> 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.
>
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Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk