PHP: System Timezone Setting error

2
votes

I'm trying to use PHP in the terminal under MAMP but I got an error related to the system's timezone settings. How can I fix this error?

$/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php echo.php

PHP Strict Standards: PHP Startup: 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 'Asia/Manila' for 'PHT/8.0/no DST' instead in Unknown on line 0

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command-linetimezonephp
The error message tells you how to resolve it - set the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or use the date_default_timezone_set() function. – JAL

2 Answers

5
votes

You need to set date.timezone in the php.ini fileDocs

// London, England, Europe
date.timezone = "Europe/London"
date.default_latitude = 51.500181
date.default_longitude = -0.12619

or

 date.timezone = America/Los_Angeles
3
votes

Set the default time zone manually at the beginning of your code:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');