Moodle

Here is the list of warnings

Warning: getdate(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1305

Warning: strftime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1259

Warning: getdate(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1305

Warning: mktime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/calendar/lib.php on line 976

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 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/calendar/lib.php on line 976

Warning: mktime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/calendar/lib.php on line 112

Warning: mktime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/calendar/lib.php on line 113

Warning: mktime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1779

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 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1779

Warning: mktime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1132

Warning: strftime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1259

Warning: strftime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1255

Warning: strftime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1256

Warning: strftime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1255

Warning: strftime(): 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/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle19/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1256

You can set the default timezone in the config.php.

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
If you add the timezone 'UTC' then you have to set your correct location in ''Site Administration > Location > Location settings'' because the server's local time switches to UCT with this setting.

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
If you add a line with your local timezone then the localtime is really the Server's local time.

I think that the config.php would be the right place only for new Moodle installations. Only for a new Moodle installation you could ask for the timezone in the installation script. In an older installation the default timezone has to be set in a different place because there are some Moodle instances where the Moodle admin can not edit the config.php.

Okay

I tried the following PHP script and it works. It seems that PHP reads the correct timezone from the settings of Mac OS X. I got the output 'Europe/Berlin' in my normal settings for Germany and I got 'Australia/Perth' when I switch to there in the System Preferences of my iMac.

Here you can see my test script timezone.php
<?php echo 'date_default_timezone_get () : '.date_default_timezone_get (); ?>

There is no default setting in the file /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone =

I hope that you will fix this problem soon.

Thanks, Ralf

... and the next test ...

If I set the default timezone in the php.ini AND in the config.php at the same time then Moodle does not show anything.

this is a new PHP feature

Hi Petr,

remember please that a Moodle administrator has no chance to correct this error messages if he is not allowed to edit config.php or php.ini.

Ralf

The time zone handling needs a full rewrite in HEAD, we already have timezone specification in server configuration which may be used, we do not need any new settings.