Title: Fatal error: DateTimeZone::__wakeup(): Timezone initialization failed
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Fatal error: DateTimeZone::__wakeup(): Timezone initialization failed

 *  [Ivan Stefanov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iv3rson76/)
 * (@iv3rson76)
 * SiteGround Representative
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/atal-error-datetimezone_wakeup-timezone-initialization-failed/)
 * Hello,
 * We noticed the following error in WordPress 4.6:
 * Fatal error: DateTimeZone::__wakeup(): Timezone initialization failed in /home/
   user/public_html/site.com/wp-content/object-cache.php on line 240
 * which checking the strace appeared to be related to the bwp-recaptcha:
 *     ```
       7792 4375  sendto(4, "get f9063c7ce78342ec9504bb649symeu_:bwp_plugins:timezone\r
       ", 58, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 58
       7793 4375  recvfrom(4, 0x1e9ab48, 8196, 16384, 0, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
       7794 4375  poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
       7795 4375  recvfrom(4, "VALUE f9063c7ce78342ec9504bb649symeu_:bwp_plugins:timezone 4 24\r
       O:12:\"DateTimeZone\":0:{}\r
       END\r
       ", 8196, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, NULL) = 96
       7796 4375  open("php_errorlog", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0644) = 6
       7797 4375  write(6, "[18-Aug-2016 10:31:23 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  DateTimeZone::__wakeup(): Timezone initialization failed in /home/user/public_html/site.com/wp-con     tent/object-cache.php on line 240
       ", 192) = 192
       ```
   
 * Website runs with PHP Version 5.6.24 and as far as we could see the issue is 
   caused by the way how timezone is called in wp-content/plugins/bwp-recaptcha/
   vendor/kminh/bwp-framework/src/class-bwp-framework-v3.php file.
 * Could you please check?
 * Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-recaptcha/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-recaptcha/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Khang Minh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oddoneout/)
 * (@oddoneout)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/atal-error-datetimezone_wakeup-timezone-initialization-failed/#post-7678310)
 * Hi Ivan,
 * Thank you so much for reporting the bug, I will take a look and will let you 
   know the soonest.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/atal-error-datetimezone_wakeup-timezone-initialization-failed/#post-7678310)
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