phoneticus

I’m back, and with a fix.

Search the installation folder for PHP.ini. Open the file in a text editor.

Search for date.timezone as a string.
Remove the leading semi-colon.

Edit the line like this: date.timezone = “America/New_York”

The timezone is in the error message. See the posts about this one. If you can’t find your timezone, check out the following link.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Please let me know if this actually helps anyone. It’s not you, it’s me . . .

I guess I’ll stand in line as yet another confused newbie. I’ve spent two and a half days attempting to complete the “Famous 5-minute Install” from the ReadMe file. Most of this time was spent trying to get MySQL to cooperate with either WinXP or Vista. WinXP won.

I get to this page in the installation of WordPress:

https://localhost/mysite/wp-admin/install.php?step=2

Here, the bewildering date time error about “not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings.” I know this is a Windows box, but isn’t this a tad extreme – even for a Microsoft product?

After MySQL is installed, is there a default name for the database? If that has been forgotten, can something be types at the command line to verify the database names(s)?