10 thoughts on - Time Zone

• Put a simple php page on your/the server (where zoneminder is running) with the “phpinfo()” function, and then look at the timezone information in the “date” section of the output.

  If it isn’t showing the correct value, check the location of the php.ini that is being used in the “Loaded Configuration File” value toward the top of that output.

  By default, php doesn’t use the system’s TZ,

• —–Original Message—

• Obviously can’t answer that as we don’t know enough about what changes you may have made to your system. The default php.ini doesn’t have a TZ set, so will always give that message unless/until you add a TZ.

  However, to fix this:

  – check the location of the php.ini that is being referenced,
  as indicated above (generally /etc/php.ini).

  – edit that php.ini file to set a correct TZ following the
  “date.timezone =” entry.

  – be certain to uncomment that line.

  – you probably need to restart the apache server to get any
  change picked up.

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

  Its set. Not sure why its not seeing it. The only changes I made to php.ini was this last week when I installed 7.3 and zoneminder.

  Its been working up till about noon today.

  Thanks

• You need to make certain that the php.ini where you have that setting is the one that is being referenced by the server. See above notes on checking that.

  The apache server needs to be restarted to load changes made to the php.ini.

  These things don’t change “magically”. If this worked until noon, I’d check various logs to see who/what made changes then – including looking to see if the apache server was restarted then and loaded changes made previously.

• the check if

  Here’s an excerpt from /var/log/messages:

  Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zmc_dvideo0[13838]: INF [Den: 57000 – Capturing at
  29.41 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zmc_dvideo1[13864]: INF [Deck: 57000 – Capturing at
  30.30 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zmc_dvideo2[13890]: INF [Front: 57000 – Capturing at
  30.30 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:19 ts130 zma_m1[13847]: INF [Den: 57000 – Analysing at 30.30
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zmc_dvideo3[13917]: INF [Street: 57000 – Capturing at
  29.41 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zma_m2[13873]: INF [Deck: 57000 – Analysing at 29.41
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zma_m3[13899]: INF [Front: 57000 – Analysing at 29.41
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:20 ts130 zma_m4[13925]: INF [Street: 57000 – Analysing at 30.30
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:41 ts130 web_php[15770]: FAT [ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone]
  Jan 31 12:15:46 ts130 web_php[15770]: FAT [ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone]
  Jan 31 12:15:47 ts130 web_php[15770]: FAT [ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone]
  Jan 31 12:15:52 ts130 zmc_dvideo0[13838]: INF [Den: 58000 – Capturing at
  30.30 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:52 ts130 zmc_dvideo1[13864]: INF [Deck: 58000 – Capturing at
  30.30 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zmc_dvideo2[13890]: INF [Front: 58000 – Capturing at
  29.41 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zma_m1[13847]: INF [Den: 58000 – Analysing at 29.41
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zmc_dvideo3[13917]: INF [Street: 58000 – Capturing at
  30.30 fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zma_m2[13873]: INF [Deck: 58000 – Analysing at 30.30
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:53 ts130 zma_m3[13899]: INF [Front: 58000 – Analysing at 30.30
  fps]
  Jan 31 12:15:54 ts130 zma_m4[13925]: INF [Street: 58000 – Analysing at 29.41
  fps]

  The 12:15 mark is when it first started.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks

• That’s reporting the problem. You need to look deeper to see what caused the change.

  First I would confirm that the php.ini file where you have the TZ set is the one being referenced. Look at your phpinfo() output for that. If so, check when that file was last written compared to when the apache server was last loaded.

  With the TZ setting that you report as being in your php.ini the output from the phpinfo() should show that TZ. Since it’s not, I
  suspect that the php.ini that you are editing either isn’t the one that is being loaded or was changed after the last apache [re]start.

• the from php.ini changed

  There have been no changes to the php.ini. Not sure how to output phpinfo to a text file for posting.

  System Linux ts130.palmettodomains.com 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 18 13:06:36 UTC 2017 x86_64
  Build Date Nov 6 2016 00:30:05
  Server API Apache 2.0 Handler Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc Loaded Configuration File /etc/php.ini

  date

  Warning: phpinfo(): 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. in /var/www/html/phpinfo.php on line
  4
  date/time support enabled
  “Olson” Timezone Database Version 0.system Timezone Database internal Default timezone UTC

  It is using UTC as the default time zone.

  This could possibly be a bug in zoneminder. Not sure. Odd that after almost a week, this happens.

  I have posted in their forum.

  Thanks

• The phpinfo() output has nothing to do with zoneminder, it’s directly reporting the php configuration being used by apache.

  Where is the php.ini that showed the America/New_York value? What is the last modified date/time on that file, compared to the last
  [re]start of the httpd on that machine?

  The “date.timezone” value can be set within a php script, and that may be relevant to zoneminder, but the phpinfo() function is getting the system-level settings — which come from the php.ini that is being loaded.

  It is possible that you have .ini files in /etc/php.d. I doubt that they would be overriding the php.ini’s TZ setting, but you should check.

• the

  /etc/php.ini

  When I started getting the errors logging in, I checked the value. The value hadn’t changed. The date on the file is going to be invalid since I ‘messed’ with it _AFTER_
  getting the error as well as restarting httpd numerous times since then.

  I restarted httpd around 11:43 when I modified
  /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf so I could access phpmyadmin remotely and renamed the alias for it. When I got finished I changed at access portion back and restarted again.

  would be I did a locate php.ini and only found one.