Wth php 5.3 starts to have a lot of warnings It is not safe to rely on the system's time in apache logs

[Patrick Pollet]

mahara 1.5 dev master
php version :
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Nov 3 2011 12:00:26)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

With php set in full error reporting mode , my apache errors logs get filled with warnings about 'It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings'

[Mon Jan 23 14:51:49 2012] [error] [client 134.214.152.108] [WAR] 6a (lib/mahara.php:2884) 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 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CET/1,0/no DST' instead, referer: http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/mahara/user/find.php?limit=99
...

[Thu Jan 26 13:24:05 2012] [error] [client 134.214.152.108] * log_message("date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's tim...", 8, true, true, "/var/www/html/mahara.git/htdocs/lib/mahara.php", 2884) at /var/www/html/mahara.git/htdocs/lib/errors.php:446, referer: http://xxxxxxxx/mahara/
[Thu Jan 26 13:24:05 2012] [error] [client 134.214.152.108] * error(2, "date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's tim...", "/var/www/html/mahara.git/htdocs/lib/mahara.php", 2884, array(size 2)) at Unknown:0, referer: http://xxxxxxx/mahara/
[Thu Jan 26 13:24:05 2012] [error] [client 134.214.152.108] * date("Y-m-d h:i:s") at /var/www/html/mahara.git/htdocs/lib/mahara.php:2884, referer: http://xxxxxxx/mahara/
[Thu Jan 26 13:24:05 2012] [error] [client 134.214.152.108] * mahara_log("views", "6") at /var/www/html/mahara.git/htdocs/user/view.php:289, referer: http://xxxxxxxxx/mahara/

I did fixed it by adding at the end of config.php

// quick fix on my place
//date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Berlin");

//a better fix
if(function_exists("date_default_timezone_set") and function_exists("date_default_timezone_get")) {
 @date_default_timezone_set(@date_default_timezone_get());
}

But I guess it might be time to add to Mahara's site configuration a setting about 'server timezone' and use it 'a la Moodle'

Cheers.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/1089

[François Marier (fmarier)]

We haven't really been able to reproduce this on our normal development or production machines.

Could it be a configuration problem on your server?

If so, I guess having the warnings in the error log until you fix it in your php.ini is a good thing that we shouldn't silently work-around.

If not, then we'd need more information as to when this configuration can occur.

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