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[Snippet] Setting the timezone for PHP 5.3

PHP 5.3 requires a time zone to be set if you do any kind of date processing.

Simply set this in your php.ini

// London, England, Europe
date.timezone = "Europe/London"
date.default_latitude = 51.500181
date.default_longitude = -0.12619

Or if you are on a shared host, you can do it in a .htaccess

php_flag date.timezone = "Europe/London"
php_flag date.default_latitude = 51.500181
php_flag date.default_longitude = -0.12619

If all else fails, put the following in your code

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

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