[Done v1.5.5] Admin timezone error on login page

I have seen this exact issue posted in other threads, but none of the solutions have worked. This is a fresh install of v1.5.4. The server is running PHP 5.6.

This is the error when I try to access the admin page:

Warning: 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 the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /home1/***/public_html/new/shopadmin/login.php on line 13

I have set the time zone in includes/extra_configures/set_time_zone.php, this is what is there now:

if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, 5.3, '>='))
{
// put your timezone here. Refer to http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
$TZ = 'America/New_York'; // eg: 'Europe/Oslo'

I am also getting this error in the log files:

[11-Nov-2015 13:49:55 America/New_York] PHP Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home1//public_html/new/shopadmin/login.php:13) in /home1//public_html/new/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 115
[11-Nov-2015 13:49:55 America/New_York] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/l/public_html/new/shopadmin/login.php:13) in /home1//public_html/new/shopadmin/includes/init_includes/init_templates.php on line 28

I have checked the files referenced in the log file, but none of them have empty lines, spaces, etc.

I just don't know what else to try. The Zen-Cart server compatibility page says that v1.5.4 is compatible with PHP 5.5 and 5.6, but it seems there are issues with 5.6. I tried using 5.5 instead, but it's not installed on the server unfortunately.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this? Thanks!

Evidently it's a bug which only shows up when the hosting server has done nothing with timezone support at all.

The fix (which we'll put in the next version) is simple:

Edit /admin/login.php
Find line 16:```
require ('includes/application_top.php');

That worked perfectly, thank you!

DrByte:

Evidently it's a bug which only shows up when the hosting server has done nothing with timezone support at all.

The fix (which we'll put in the next version) is simple:

Edit /admin/login.php
Find line 16:```
require ('includes/application_top.php');

I had the same problem.

This worked great.