phpinfo displays date.timezone warning in MAMP

Question

I ran a phpinfo() function in MAMP, and received the following warning, embedded in the php info table:

Warning: phpinfo() [function.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 'America/New_York' for 'EST/-5.0/no DST' instead in /Applications/MAMP/bin/mamp/phpinfo.php on line 2 

the date.timezone in the php.ini file is set to 'America/New_York', and the warning is only three rows above that actual setting reflected in the phpinfo table!

Could someone please explain to me how to fix this issue?

Answer 1

You're certain there are no quotes around the timezone in the .ini file?

date.timezone = America/New_York

http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php#85815