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[Paulnorm]

I have installed PHP and amySQL on windows server 2003 and they are working fine. Come to install OJS , have unpacked the tar file and placed it in my web directory. When I go to the internet browser and type in "localhost/ojs" it is coming back saying 'Warning: error_log(): 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 'Europe/London' for '1.0/DST' instead in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ojs\lib\pkp\classes\core\PKPApplication.inc.php on line 371 Warning: error_log(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.'

Anyone have a clue what this means?

[asmecher]

Hi Paulnorm,

This means you'll need to configure your timezone in your system's php.ini configuration file. See for example http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[Paulnorm]

Hi,

Thanks for this. changed the php.ini file and it is set as follows:

[date]
; date.timezone = Europe/London

; date.default_latitude = 51.4778

; date.default_longitude =

; date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333

; date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333

My phpinfo file says all the above settings are as follows:

Directive Local Value Master Value
date.default_latitude 31.7667 31.7667
date.default_longitude 35.2333 35.2333
date.sunrise_zenith 90.583333 90.583333
date.sunset_zenith 90.583333 90.583333
date.timezone no value no value

Still getting the error message about timezone. This is the first time I have tried to install ojs and haven't got a clue what to do next so any help would be massively appreciated.

[williamsella]

Same situation here.

[asmecher]

Hi all,

Once you've set your timezone configuration in php.ini, you'll probably have to restart your web server for it to take effect. Note that this is a PHP error message, not an OJS message, and there's lots of information on it around the web.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team