[CentOS] time zone

[Richard]

> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 16:59:32 -0500
> From: TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com>

> 
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Richard
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:44 PM

> 
>> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 16:02:37 -0500
>> From: TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com>
>> 
>> Today, I started getting this error when trying to login to
>> zoneminder:
>> 
>> ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php's date.timezone is not
>> set  to a valid timezone
>> 
>> Zoneminder has been running since last Wednesday when I installed
>> it.  Today, I get this.
>> 
>> In /etc/php.ini, I have date.timezone = America/New_York, which I 
>> added when zoneminder was installed.
>> 
>> Output from date: Tue Jan 31 15:56:26 EST 2017
>> 
>> Output from ll /etc/localtime: lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Jan 25
>> 19:05 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
>>  
>> Been searching for hours for another file that may be overriding 
>> php.ini
>> 
> 
> Put a simple php page on your/the server (where zoneminder is
> running) with the "phpinfo()" function, and then look at the
> timezone information in the "date" section of the output. 
> 
> If it isn't showing the correct value, check the location of the
> php.ini that is being used in the "Loaded Configuration File" value
> toward the top of that output.
> 
> By default, php doesn't use the system's TZ,
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I did, it shows the error about not being correctly set:
> 
> Warning: phpinfo(): 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 the timezone 'UTC'
> for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in
> /var/www/html/phpinfo.php on line 4
> 
> Why would it just start doing this?
> 

Obviously can't answer that as we don't know enough about what
changes you may have made to your system. The default php.ini doesn't
have a TZ set, so will always give that message unless/until you add
a TZ.

However, to fix this:

  - check the location of the php.ini that is being referenced,
    as indicated above (generally /etc/php.ini).

  - edit that php.ini file to set a correct TZ following the
    "date.timezone =" entry.

  - be certain to uncomment that line.

  - you probably need to restart the apache server to get any
    change picked up.