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+[[!meta title="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
+
+
+