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Dan Course wrote:

> What fun we've had this week. The upgrade to PHP has included a change to
> the date() function and how it picks up what locale you have. So if you
> don't have a few certain fallbacks it will cause an Strict error...
> 
> So add into your php.ini, or whatever timezone you are.
> 
> date.timezone = Europe/London
> 
> For us it broke our table of system errors, and the site died... w00t.
> 
> In conclusion, is it possible to be kept updated of the changes (
> http://www.php.net/README_UPGRADE_51.php) etc... by email or widget?

I hate to say it, but if you'd done a simple phpinfo() once 5.1 was 
installed, and checked it, it would have given you all the info you 
require re: the date() change, plus the solution for it, right on the 
info page.

Or of course you could have read the upgrade notes before installing? :)

Cheers,

Rich
-- 
Zend Certified Engineer
http://www.corephp.co.uk

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window"