Acme Bundle Installation error: Warning it is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings

Question

I am trying to install Symfony2 on my localhost (MAMP), I followed the installation instruction available on the official Symfony site.

First i installed the composer and moved it to a specific directory.

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php 
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

I then executed the installation command:

composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition *my-project-path-in-MAMP-htdocs*/ "2.5.*"

During Installation process I am prompted with a question if I want to instal Acme bundle I type 'y' to confirm that I do want to instal this Bundle....

But during the installation of that Bundle I get this Error message:

Warning: 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 'Europe/London' for 'BST/1.0/DST' instead in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Symfony/project1/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php line 233

Can anyone help me or suggest a solution...?

possible duplicate of [date\_default\_timezone\_get(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12543236/date-default-timezone-get-it-is-not-safe-to-rely-on-the-systems-timezone-set) — kix, Sep 26 '14 at 11:54

ReynierPM · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-26T12:00:50.147

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You need to set the parameter date.timezone in your php.ini for every valid timezone and after that do not forget to restart Apache, try if this solve your issue

Procedure

I'm not use LAMP environment since I work with Linux but things should be the same as Mac is *nix. Anyway, you should find where php.ini file is under your directory structure (again I not use MacOS so I can't help here) and open it with any text editor or console text editor (personally I prefer this one) and find for that string date.timezone when you found it just uncomment that line by removing the ; symbol at front of the string and add a valid timezone lets said for example Europe/Amsterdam then you should have something like:

date.timezone = Europe/Amsterdam

That's all, restart your LAMP environment if you use any stack application or just restart Apache service, that will be all

edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:00

answered Sep 26 '14 at 11:51

ReynierPM

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Thank you for your answer could you possibly explain/show how this is done.? – Ziomek Ziomski Sep 26 '14 at 11:55
@ZiomekZiomski take a look to my edition seconds ago – ReynierPM Sep 26 '14 at 12:01
can I set it as Europe/London does this make any difference...? – Ziomek Ziomski Sep 26 '14 at 12:09
and Do i have to remove the ; whihc is in front of date.timezone..? – Ziomek Ziomski Sep 26 '14 at 12:10
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@ZiomekZiomski you can set whatever you want just take care around `DateTime` objects and dates format and so on – ReynierPM Sep 26 '14 at 12:11
Yes, you need to remove the `;` symbol, if you leave it as it then you are telling that is not enabled (how should be by default) if you remove then after restart your webserver it's enabled – ReynierPM Sep 26 '14 at 12:14
Yep your answer is perfect and very clear instructions given..!!! Also as I only started on stack i am very poor with point would also appreciate vote up :P – Ziomek Ziomski Sep 26 '14 at 13:14

Acme Bundle Installation error: Warning it is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings

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