title: PHP Configuration: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings
body: <p>Here a weird one. 
  I just upgrade to php 5.3.0 and since the upgrade I'm getting the following warning:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning: getdate() [function.getdate]:
    It is not safe to rely on the system's
    timezone settings. You are <em>required</em>
    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/Chicago' for
    'CST/-6.0/no DST'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>After looking in various forums, everybody says that to solve the problem, all you have to do is edit the date zone in the php.ini and restart Apache.</p>
  
  <p>It did not work for me. </p>
  
  <p>I tried  </p>
  
  <pre><code>date.timezone="America/New_York"
  
  date.timezone=America/New_York
  
  date.timezone="US/Central"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Restarted apache after I made the change.</p>
  
  <p>Since I still have the older version of php install, I even made sure that I'm editing the php.ini that the current version of php uses at the time to load </p>
  
  <p><code>/usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini</code></p>
  
  <p>Still getting the warning. </p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for taking the time.</p>