Change/check timezone in php.ini for a wordpress website

Vegeta · 18 Mar 2015 at 18:51

Hi guys i'm a bit stuck with this one and google doesn't seem to give me clear instructions unless i'm too stupid to understand them!

Just trying to fix all issues/problems with my wordpress website and a developer of one of my plugins has said my timezone is set wrong in my php.ini.

All i'm wanting to do is identify where to find my php.ini and how to edit it to the correct timezone.

xbenjiiman · 18 Mar 2015 at 19:03

Are you on shared hosting? If so then most providers allow you to overwrite theirs by uploading one to the root directory.

Vegeta · 19 Mar 2015 at 18:45

I'm with one.com i'm assuming it's shared? As it's so cheap.

Vegeta · 19 Mar 2015 at 18:47

Also what would I do exactly? (Assume i'm a total idiot and don't know anything).

Make a text file called php.ini and put the correct text into their and just upload to the root directory?

xbenjiiman · 19 Mar 2015 at 19:46

There's the default one here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/php/php-src/master/php.ini-production

Uncomment and change line 915 to your timezone.

Timezones are here:

http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

If you wanted the UK, then it'd look like

Code:

date.timezone = Europe/London

Vegeta · 23 Mar 2015 at 13:33

So I download that first link rename it to php.ini and change line 915 and upload to root directory?

Will a default file not mess around with/change another other settings I may have?

xbenjiiman · 23 Mar 2015 at 15:06

Vegeta said:
So I download that first link rename it to php.ini and change line 915 and upload to root directory?

Will a default file not mess around with/change another other settings I may have?

Possibly.

What control panel are one.com using? You could possibly try deleting all but that line and seeing if it overrides.

Have you had a look around the CP seeing if you can edit php.ini from there?

Can you browse the /etc/ folder?

Vegeta · 23 Mar 2015 at 18:18

I just asked one.com support and they said you cannot change server timezone apparently... I cannot browse the /etc/ folder.

xbenjiiman · 23 Mar 2015 at 19:14

Vegeta said:
I just asked one.com support and they said you cannot change server timezone apparently... I cannot browse the /etc/ folder.

Would've thought someone as big as one would allow you to do that...

Another fix could be to add the following to the top of your index.php file (after the opening tags of course)

PHP:

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");