date.timezone

[brandongay]

Zen 1.3.9e
Fresh Install
Server 2008
PHP 5.3

When going through the install, and I click here from the first page, I get "ERROR: date.timezone not set in php.ini. Please contact your hosting company to set the timezone in the server PHP configuration before continuing." I have done what I thought was the editing of the php.ini in the PHP directory to set the date.timezone to:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone = "America/Chicago"

I have tried different combinations, and restarted the server a few times after changes. I still get the same result. I am sure it is something that is very simple, but I am a newbie to PHP.

Any help is apprieciated.

[DrByte]

Try taking out the ";" from the beginning of the line, since it's making the line get treated as a comment instead of actually using what you've put there.

[brandongay]

I thought I had done that. But that fixed it. Thanks so much.

[yuto]

I am having the same issue. My problem is not fixed even though I modified php.ini. In fact it seems like timezone is set properly because I can see default time zone is set, if I do phpinfo();


I have been working on this for a bit of time, but I haven't been able to install zen-cart yet. Does anyone have any idea?

[DrByte]

If you're having problems with the PHP configuration on your server, you should be talking to your hosting company for help.

[shawinder]

hi yuto,

you can fix it by going to zc_install/includes/application_top.php and add following line on the top:

ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/Vancouver');

[jwr51]

Thank you.
(Remember to restart your server to activate the new settings).

[Gunnel]

hi yuto,

you can fix it by going to zc_install/includes/application_top.php and add following line on the top:

ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/Vancouver');

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This solved all my trobles.

[DrByte]

It's much better to have your hosting company properly configure the server.

[mikehr]

can you help me with this error, I am trying to install Zencart and I´m getting this error message. Thank you very much. I´ve been searching for an answer in forum but no success. THX in advance

ERROR: date.timezone not set in php.ini. Please contact your hosting company to set the timezone in the server PHP configuration before continuing.