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I'm seeing: "It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings."

If you are getting the PHP warning:

Warning: date() [function.date]: 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 ‘America/New_York’ for ‘EDT/-4.0/DST’ instead in /afs/athena.mit.edu/… on line 0

You can resolve it by editing or creating a php.ini file in the same directory as the PHP script emitting this error and adding the line:

date.timezone = America/New_York