[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #4994: Default Timezone settings

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#4994: Default Timezone settings
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 Reporter:  redbeard0x0a  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:           
Component:  General       |     Version:  2.3      
 Severity:  major         |    Keywords:           
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 I setup Beta3 on [http://www.nexenta.org/ NexentaCP] (an
 [http://www.opensolaris.org/ OpenSolaris] distribution, downstream from
 Ubuntu), the php error notifications are set as E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE, yet I
 get these messages when working with dates:

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 ''Warning: mktime() [function.mktime]: It is not safe to rely on the
 system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ
 environment variable 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 had to select 'UTC'
 because your platform doesn't provide functionality for the guessing
 algorithm in /var/www/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 14

 Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's
 timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ
 environment variable 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 had to select 'UTC'
 because your platform doesn't provide functionality for the guessing
 algorithm in /var/www/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 23''
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 These warning messages make wordpress completely unusable out of the box
 without having to hard code timezones in either php.ini or templates.  The
 warnings appear 15 times on the front page of a default install of
 wordpress 2.3 beta3.  There should be a way to explicitly set the
 timezones for the wordpress installation.

 Some documentation I found regarding this issue:
 https://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=739376
 http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

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