PHP 5.3 and date error [#598636]

I installed this module on a new build of 6.14 on PHP 5.3 and received this error:

"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 '-7.0/no DST' instead in C:\inetpub\drupal-6.14\sites\all\modules\backup_migrate\backup_migrate.module on line 479."

I fixed this by adding the following line @ 478:
date_default_timezone_set(variable_get("date_default_timezone_name", 'America/Phoenix'));

This seems to be a PHP 5.3 date() function issue. Please test this fix on a non-production, as I have not done extensive testing to see if this break other things.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#6	backup_migrate.date_warning_598636_06.patch	540 bytes	rfay
#6
#4	598636.patch	588 bytes	roderik
#4

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Comments

Comment #1

seworthi CreditAttribution: seworthi commented 16 October 2009 at 23:52

Title:

PHP 5.3 and data error

» PHP 5.3 and date error

Upon further investigation, the true problem lies in the core and calling the date(). PHP 5.3 throws errors about not having the timezone set. The post http://drupal.org/node/325827, talks about a fix for drupal 7. Hopefully they will rool this patch down into drupal 6.

Comment #2

hal9000_jr CreditAttribution: hal9000_jr commented 1 January 2010 at 16:33

Status:

Active

» Fixed

A better fix than editing the Drupal Core is to install the Date module and enable Date API, Date Locale, and Date TimeZone. Also Core Optional Locale. Then, goto Administer Date and set your Timezone.