[CentOS] Where is timezone string stored?

[Eero Volotinen]

2012/12/28 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>:
>
> 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...

err.. http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2012/03/19/setting-the-time-zone-for-php-5-3-x/

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Eero