php help, please....

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 06:49:20PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> On 12/06/2010 18:26:42, Gary Kline wrote:
> > can anybody 'splain what suddenly went wrong with my two-year-old 
> > php script?
> 
> Simple.  You upgraded to php-5.3.x.  This is a well known gotcha --
> php-5.3.x needs to have the timezone set explicitly in
> /usr/local/etc/php.ini.  If you haven't got a php.ini, then just copy
> one of the sample files, php.ini-production for preference, and edit it
> like so (although your timezone is almost certainly not Europe/London,
> so substitute accordingly):
> 
> % diff -u php.ini-production php.ini
> - --- php.ini-production	2010-05-31 10:03:32.000000000 +0100
> +++ php.ini	2010-04-27 15:53:52.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@
>  [Date]
>  ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
>  ; http://php.net/date.timezone
> - -;date.timezone =
> +date.timezone = Europe/London
> 
>  ; http://php.net/date.default-latitude
>  ;date.default_latitude = 31.7667
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew



	here's what is in my /usr/local/etc/php.ini file as of
	moments ago:


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


	i hit reload on my broswer and still get the err from date.
	the first date is $week = date("w"); [[[i think!]]]


	then, i tried [again] what Robert suggested, and my problems
	vanished.  thanks to you both.

$day = date_default_timezone_set("w");
$hour = date_default_timezone_set("H");
$minutes = date_default_timezone_set("i");
$seconds = date_default_timezone_set("s");


	back to my re-editing about my cover artist, one Mr Kalin
	pretty soon.  once i've cleaned up my home/homepage!, but it
	seems strange that php would simply =change= out from under
	me.  well, so to speak.  can you suggest any php list that i
	should sub to?  i don't always click around to read the
	latest and greatest about lang changes.  or fashions and
	trends, :_) LOL, but i do my best to read of this kind of
	change.....  so any list suggestion would be indeed welcome.

	gary,

		[jack of N trades and maste r of -1. ]

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