[CentOS] Where is timezone string stored?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/27/2012 05:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 27.12.2012 22:08, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>> On 12/27/2012 03:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> Am 27.12.2012 21:17, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>>> I am having problems with RoundCube:
>>>>
>>>> 'Your session is invalid or expired'
>>>>
>>>> So I went looking for logs and in /var/log/roundcube/errors I find LOTS
>>>> of warnings about problems with my timezone.  Kind of a challenge to
>>>> copy the log entries over here (will do if needed).
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, for right now I am looking as to where my 'Detroit
>>>> American/New_York' (what I am seeing in Gnomes calendar preferences)
>>>> string is stored.
>>>>
>>>> Roundcube seems to want 'America/New_York'?
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't I be seeing 'America/Detroit' when I look at the calendar
>>>> selection in Gnome?
>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=php+timezone
>>>
>>> php.ini:
>>> date.timezone = "your-timezone"
>> Not the place where Centos is storing timezone.  Or perhaps this is where RoundCube is expecting it?
> but the place where the timezone for php is configured
> you may guess in which language roundcube is written

I guessed this from looking at the roundcube errors.  So now to dig up 
how to configure php, and not expect the packages that use it to 
configure such base requirements.  Got to love it.

> on a proper configured php-setup with full error-reporting
> you get even warnings if the timezone is not configured, but
> hey why should people enable warnings on their servers :-)

Becuase we expect it to work right the first time!  DIRTFT!

Actually, there were some decent error messages from Roundcube:

[27-Dec-2012 14:56:47] 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/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in 
/usr/share/roundcubemail/program/include/rcube_config.php on line 96

[27-Dec-2012 14:56:47] 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/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in 
/usr/share/roundcubemail/program/include/rcube_config.php on line 97

[27-Dec-2012 14:56:47] PHP Warning:  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 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in 
/usr/share/roundcubemail/program/include/rcube_session.php on line 134

[27-Dec-2012 14:56:47] 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/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in 
/usr/share/roundcubemail/program/include/rcube_mdb2.php on line 603

So I have taken this problem over to the Roundcube list.  But will dig 
into php configuration.  Seems Roundcube is expecting more than say 
phpmysqladmin...