Default Timezone in PHP, Not Working?
Since I started using PHP 5.x.x I started to experience incorrect time reported back through PHP using for example date(). I checked phpinfo() and found out that the default timezone was detected as America/Chicago. This was not the case as the server was configured for Canada/Saskatchewan (CST). I found out that I ended up having to directly set my timezone in php.ini file. I put the following in my php.ini file, then restarted Apache and the problem was resolved.
date.timezone = “Canada/Saskatchewan”
I’m not sure if this is a bug in PHP not detecting the timezone correctly. I tried searching through known PHP Bugs but no luck locating my problem. By the way, I’m running Apache with PHP/MySQL on OpenBSD i386 v3.7.
Thanks to TML from IRC channel ##php on freenode for helping me resolve the problem.
