After a long battle to get my system back on air after a hard disk crash, I got PHP 5.3.5 running under Apache 2.2.3. I now get a diagnostic every time I call date(), complaining about a missing parameter. The manual states that the second parameter is optional, and even phpinfo doesn't know about this new requirement, as it contains the same diagnostic: "Warning: phpinfo(): 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 'Australia/Melbourne' for '11.0/DST' instead in D:\Websites\index.php on line 1 Warning: phpinfo(): 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 'Australia/Melbourne' for '11.0/DST' instead in D:\Websites\index.php on line 1 ". Is this a bug, or a new requirement we will have to get used to? Roger Riordan AM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php