[Buildroot] [PATCH] php.ini: set date.timezone to UTC

[Floris Bos]

On 05/02/2015 12:23 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 01/05/15 20:12, Floris Bos wrote:
>> Prevent a warning being logged each time a PHP date/time method is
>> used by setting UTC as (default) timezone in php.ini
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Floris Bos <bos at je-eigen-domein.nl>
>> ---
>>   package/php/php.mk | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/package/php/php.mk b/package/php/php.mk
>> index 3b9a117..7bd3f63 100644
>> --- a/package/php/php.mk
>> +++ b/package/php/php.mk
>> @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ define PHP_INSTALL_FIXUP
>>   	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/phpize
>>   	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 $(PHP_DIR)/php.ini-production \
>>   		$(TARGET_DIR)/etc/php.ini
>> +	$(SED) 's/;date.timezone =/date.timezone = UTC/' $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/php.ini
>   Would it be possible to use BR2_TARGET_LOCALTIME (if set) instead? Something like:
>
> ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_LOCALTIME),)
> PHP_LOCALTIME = UTC
> else
> PHP_LOCALTIME = $(BR2_TARGET_LOCALTIME)
> endif
>
> 	$(SED) 's%;date.timezone =.*%date.timezone = $(PHP_LOCALTIME)%' \
> 		$(TARGET_DIR)/etc/php.ini
>
>   That is, assuming that php can deal with complex timezones like Europe/Brussels.

PHP used to use the system's time zone name automatically in older PHP 
versions.
But nowadays fills your log with warnings that is not reliable:

==
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.
==

It certainly does work for common names like Europe/Brussels, but not 
sure if that goes for every zone name.


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos