andrew-kirkpatrick

It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.

If you see this thrown at the E_STRICT level by PHP, then you need to let PHP know which timezone the server is currently running in, by either running the following function in PHP:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

... where Europe/London is a supported timezone or setting it in php.ini:

date.timezone = "Europe/London"

Finally, after months and months and months of putting them off, I finally got round to taking my certification exams. Well, I say got round to... more like one was going to expire, and the others I wasn't allowed to reschedule again. I'm happy that in a way I was forced to take them though, as I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it otherwise, plus given my situation at work and the state of the economy it's never a bad thing to have a couple more stars on my job applications.