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I recently upgraded my site to the latest stable release and got through the entire update process until I got to the last page where the CP now throws this error:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: date_default_timezone_get() [function.date-default-timezone-get]: 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/Los_Angeles' for '-7.0/DST' instead
Filename: libraries/Core.php
Line Number: 227

I have gone into my php.ini file and updated the timezone but it does not seem to clear the error. Any thoughts? Site was working fine before.

Hi l3training,

Did you restart the server after altering the PHP configuration? That is indeed a server-side configuration that needs to be correct for EE to function properly.

I did restart the server. I ended up reverting back to the 2.1.3 version of the site that was working and then did a fresh update to see if the timezone values needed to be in there prior to proceeding with the update wizard. Seemed to work fine now after I changed the timezone value.

Hi Matt,

Good to hear! So everything seems to be working at this point?

I ran into this as well on a fresh installation of 2.2 (after the patch). After setting the php.ini date.timezone setting and restarting Apache, it got rid of the message.

Glad that worked, wwinningham! Thanks all.