[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#667634: cacti uses wrong timezone and logs PHP warnings

[Christoph Kling]

Package: cacti
Version: 0.8.7i-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

cacti logs dozens of warnings in its /var/log/cacti/poller-error.log. 

The message is:


"PHP Warning:  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 the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /usr/share/cacti/site/include/global_arrays.php on line 672"

The warning does matter because cacti logs the wrong times. Graphs are using UTC instead of the local server time.

The reason for this bug could be the upgrade to PHP 5.4.


Regards,
Christoph


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cacti depends on:
ii  apache2                                  2.2.22-2
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [httpd]               2.2.22-2
ii  dbconfig-common                          1.8.47+nmu1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                    1.5.42
ii  libphp-adodb                             5.15-1
ii  mysql-client-5.1 [virtual-mysql-client]  5.1.61-2
ii  php5                                     5.4.0-3
ii  php5-cli                                 5.4.0-3
ii  php5-mysql                               5.4.0-3
ii  php5-snmp                                5.4.0-3
ii  rrdtool                                  1.4.7-1
ii  snmp                                     5.4.3~dfsg-2.4
ii  ucf                                      3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages cacti recommends:
ii  iputils-ping                     3:20101006-1+b1
ii  logrotate                        3.8.1-1
ii  mysql-server-5.1 [mysql-server]  5.1.61-2

Versions of packages cacti suggests:
pn  php5-ldap  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/cacti changed [not included]

-- debconf information:
  cacti/mysql/admin-pass: (password omitted)
  cacti/password-confirm: (password omitted)
  cacti/app-password-confirm: (password omitted)
  cacti/mysql/app-pass: (password omitted)
  cacti/db/app-user: cacti
  cacti/mysql/admin-user: root
* cacti/webserver: Apache2
  cacti/mysql/method: unix socket
  cacti/remote/host:
  cacti/upgrade-error: abort
  cacti/dbconfig-upgrade: true
  cacti/internal/skip-preseed: false
  cacti/remote/newhost:
  cacti/purge: false
  cacti/missing-db-package-error: abort
  cacti/database-type: mysql
  cacti/remove-error: abort
  cacti/db/dbname: cacti
  cacti/upgrade-backup: true
  cacti/install-error: abort
  cacti/internal/reconfiguring: false
  cacti/passwords-do-not-match:
* cacti/dbconfig-remove:
* cacti/dbconfig-install: true
  cacti/remote/port:
  cacti/dbconfig-reinstall: false
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