It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings

[John Diver]

Hey,

Im getting an error Ive never had before.

I searched and I tried date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York'); on the config file but its not working.
vB_Database::db_connect() [<a href='vb-database.db-connect'>vb-database.db-connect</a>]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead /home/northwes/public_html/site/new/includes/class_core.php on line 311

[Trevor Hannant]

This should hopefully help as it's a server configuration issue rather than a vBulletin one:

https://www.scriptevolve.com/kb/symfony/solved-date_default_timezone_get-it-is-not-safe-to-rely-on-the-systems-timezone-settings

[BirdOPrey5]

Perhaps try

 date_default_timezone_set('US/Eastern');

In the /includes/config.php file, directly below the first line of the file. I say /includes/ as I've seen a number of sites where people have multiple copies of config.php in wrong directories that don't do anything.