How to set date.timezone for CodeIgniter to work with php 5.3

If you Googled "CodeIgniter PHP 5.3" you would have found this article pretty quickly :)

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/12/CodeIgniter-on-PHP-5.3

To fix this, you only need to edit the main index.php for your CodeIgniter application:

if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
{
   date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
} 

This modification is something you will probably need to make for any CodeIgniter application running on PHP 5.3 and can easily be modified to your local timezone. There is a full list of supported timezones in the PHP manual here.

write in your index.php codeigniter...

/*
|---------------------------------------------------------------
| TimeZone 
|---------------------------------------------------------------
|
| default Time Zone
| 

*/
if ( function_exists( 'date_default_timezone_set' ) )
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Jakarta');

Running well in my codeigniter

Yes, if you cannot directly edit the php.ini file, placing...

ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/New_York');

...as the first line in CI's index.php works fine.

Reference: PHP's Available Timezones