[TYPO3-core] RFC #11587: PHP Warnings concerning missing timezone settings under PHP 5.3

[Dan Osipov]

I am actually pro-warning, making the administrator set the timezone in 
php.ini, instead of another setting in TYPO3.

My 2 cents...

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Rupert Germann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: Bugfix
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11587
> 
> Branches: Trunk
> 
> Problem:
> On systems running PHP 5.3 with a php.ini that does not contain a value 
> for "date.timezone" the following warning is displayed in the Backend 
> (e.g. in the list module): Warning: date() [function.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.....
> 
> 
> Solution:
> add a new conf vars parameter "phpDateTimeZone" which allows admins to 
> set the timezone (default is "CET"). This is the same as 
> "serverTimeZone" which is also set to CET (GMT+1) by default.
> 
> 
> greets
> rupert
>