Default Time Zones With Xampp 1.7.4

[Apophis55]

Hello. Apologies if this has already been answered but a search of the forum revealed answers to previous versions of Xampp and not 1.7.4.

In previous versions of Xampp, in order to change the default time zone one had to make changes to 2 files:

C:\xampp\php\php.ini

C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini

Has this changed with Xampp 1.7.4? Navigating to C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini I no longer see an option to set/change the default time zone.

Thanks in advance.

[Sharley]

In previous versions of Xampp, in order to change the default time zone one had to make changes to 2 files:
C:\xampp\php\php.ini
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini

In previous versions to 1.7.4 (for example 1.7.3) the setup_xampp.bat file took care of this chore.

In 1.7.4 several 1.7.3 features have been omitted, so you would need to add the my.ini file entry manually.

In the my.ini file you would need to add the line in red in the location defined below, like so

myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M

default-time-zone = "Australia/Brisbane"

log_error = "C:/xampp/mysql/data/mysql.err"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"

In the php.ini file look for and edit this section

Code: Select all

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = "Australia/Brisbane"

Remember to save the files and restart Apache and MySQL.

The above time zone is for my location and the default, if unchanged, is Europe/Berlin.

The time zones for your particular location may be found here:
http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

[Apophis55]

In 1.7.4 several 1.7.3 features have been omitted, so you would need to add the my.ini file entry manually.

I suspected as much but wanted confirmation prior to proceeding just in case it was defined elsewhere. Thanks for the assistance Sharley.

[FxBe]

Thanks for the advices, my timezone is now propely set.
My main problem now is that the month are showing in english, how can i set them to french
A echo date j M Y gives me : 26 August 2011, and i want 26 aout 2011
Sorry i'm a noob on php but i'm trying my best to make it work

[Altrea]

Try the php-function setlocale().
But be careful. It depends on the OS-Version you use, which is the right setting to set.

[FxBe]

i found this setlocale(LC_ALL,'french'); on windows seven but where do i put it to make it work everywhere on my xampp server?
Thanks