Title: Timezone Warnings
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Timezone Warnings

 *  [jhanson8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhanson8/)
 * (@jhanson8)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-warnings/)
 * I downloaded WordPress yesterday to run on XAMPP. I have never used it before,
   so I want to try it out on my local computer before posting it to the web. I 
   have been following online tutorials, but I’ve had nothing but headaches. I keep
   getting this:
 * _Warning: date() [function.date]: 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 ‘America/Los\_Angeles’ for ‘-7.0/DST’ instead in G:\xampplite\htdocs\
   xampp\wordpress\wp-includes\class-simplepie.php on line 3579_
 * This warning appears everywhere on every page I go to. The last line beginning
   at “instead in…” changes every time. I haven’t been able to do anything because
   this warning keeps showing up. It’s really annoying. I’m a newbie who doesn’t
   know much about code or functions or anything. I’ve tried the remedies seen on
   this site and others, including the php.ini fix and the wp-includes/functions
   fix. Nothing is working and it’s really turning me off of WordPress. Can anyone
   help?

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## Tags

 * [timezone](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/timezone/)
 * [warning](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/warning/)
 * [xampp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xampp/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [jhanson8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhanson8/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-warnings/)
 * Status: not resolved

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