If you try to install WordPress with the PHP and MySQL procedures I recently posted you’ll get the following warning all over your WordPress pages.
Warning: strtotime() [function.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 file-name-here on line NN
Here’s how to fix it. Edit (or create if it does not exist) /etc/php.ini and add the following line:
date.timezone = “America/New_York”
Then restart your web server:
sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
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the wp discussions mention this too. any idea why editing php.ini did not work? i restarted apache, but that did not do it. for now, i have to use the ugly fix of editing functions.php
My first guess would be you edited the wrong php.ini. Create a phpinfo.php in your top-level wp directory with the code:
< ?php phpinfo() ?>
View that file in your browser and find the line that tells you the path of the php.ini file to make sure it is the same one you edited.