Database Errors Relating To Time

I'm getting large numbers of these entries.

[16-May-2014 07:36:25 UTC] PHP Warning:  date(): Invalid date.timezone value 'CST', we selected the timezone 'UTC' for now. in /*****/administration/charts.json.php on line 94 

I'm not sure how to resolve this correctly.

~ Corey 

You have to enter a valid timezone in your php.ini file.  To see the valid time zones for America go to https://php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php

also make sure your date is set properly in your database. You may need to contact your host if you do not know how.

Normally MySQL server will use the time from the system; on a shared host, this might mean the MySQL server time is not set to a time that is correct for you.  For example, your shared host is sitting in France and you are in California.  You can learn about setting MySQL server time here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/time-zone-support.html

However, in your case it said the timezone was set to CST.  Looking in the available timezones for php there is no CST timezone.  Instead you can use one of the America timezones or if you look in other you will find US/Central

Thank you, geek_girl! 

Getting rid of the CST seems to have done the trick. The new timezone is showing up in all areas of phpinfo now. I'm cautiously optimistic this will not only fix the errors in Dolphin, but also some aggravations I've had with a visitor map plugin that wouldn't show the correct time.

You rock! Thank you for the help.

P.S. I just moved to an unmanaged dedicated server (somewhat against my will), and I'm not very familiar with running it. I've done pretty well so far, but sometimes the dumbest little things hang me up. This being one of them. :P

If there is an issue just ask.  If you need help with managing it you can PM me.  I am guessing you may have WHM/cPanel or is it set up with another control panel?  Hopefully it does not have Plesk LOL. The thing is, once you get it all set up as it should be, you will rarely need to touch any settings; get it right and let it run.

One thing you need to make sure is that the services needed are auto-starting.  You want php, MySQL, webserver, etc needed to run the site to start on boot, that way if something causes a reboot your site will come back online on its own.  The last host I was with (dedicated) rebooted the server; or something caused it to reboot; maybe the tech guy tripped over the power cord, they claimed it was not them, and I had not set things to auto-start; the site was off-line for an hour before I noticed.  If I had been away for the day, it would have been off-line for the day.

Thanks.

I've rebooted since installing and it stayed working (thankfully).

Still in dev so good to get the bugs worked out ahead of time. =D