MAMP / Symfony: MAMP overrides date.timezone setting from php.ini, Symfony fails

Question

I'm trying to configure Symfony2 framework in MAMP.

In php.ini I have correctly set date.timezone, however, it appears that MAMP somehow overrides the setting and uses system time instead.

As a result, Symphony's config.php page sends this warning:

Warning: 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/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Symfony/app/SymfonyRequirements.php on line 434

Symfony fails to show start page until this has been fixed. What would be the solution?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Check if there are two php.ini files in your system. You may be adding the date.timezone line in one of them but MAMP is using the other.

If that doesn´t work for you try adding the following line at the beginning of your web/app.php and web/app_dev.php files, (as the error message suggests):

date_default_timezone_get('Europe/London');

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

I am still working on figuring out why and how MAMP overrides the php.ini date.timezone settings, however, I have found the quick fix solution within Symfony php files, which solved the problem, at least for now.

I added the following bit of code:

date_default_timezone_set ('America/New_York');

-- at the top of Symfony's config.php and app_dev.php files, immediately after the opening php tag, at the very top of the script. This removed the warning message and got Symfony working on MAMP.

I foresee having to add the same code to some other php files inside Symfony as I keep hacking at it, which shouldn't be a problem. Or I may figure out how to override MAMP's overriding.

Still, this is a workable solution.