FYI: date.timezine and mysql.sock issues resolved!

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For anyone who might run into the same issues with your website(s) like I did. Here are a couple things you may want to look into if you are having these issues.
The cause of these issues is due to snow leopard server using PHP 5.3.
*_ISSUE #1_*: PHP throwing the following errors:
+Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() 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 'Europe/Helsinki' for 'EEST/3.0/DST' instead in /path/to/my/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35+
+Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() 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 'Europe/Helsinki' for 'EEST/3.0/DST' instead in /path/to/my/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 43+
+Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() 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 'Europe/Helsinki' for 'EEST/3.0/DST' instead in /path/to/my/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35+
+Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the datedefault_timezoneset() 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 'Europe/Helsinki' for 'EEST/3.0/DST' instead in /path/to/my/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 43+
*_FIX FOR ISSUE #1:_* Set "date.timezone = "YOURTIMEZONE"" value in your /etc/php.ini. Here is the list of timezones http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php. Then restart web service in server admin.
*_ISSUE #2_:* PHP throwing error "+Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: [2002] No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///tmp/mysql.sock)+"
*_FIX FOR ISSUE #2:_* Set "mysql.default_socket" value in your /etc/php.ini to "mysql.default_socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock". Then restart web service in server admin

Answer 1

Didn't resolve it for me using 10.6.1 server. I tried adding each of the following in php.ini (not all at the same time, one by one...). Restarted web service after each change (even though you don't really need to).
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = 'America/Los_Angeles'
date.timezone = 'PDT'
datedefault_timezone_set('America/LosAngeles')
datedefault_timezone_set("America/LosAngeles")
Same error in the logs with any of these enabled:
[Sat Sep 19 14:33:32 2009] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xx] 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 datedefault_timezoneset() 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/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/date.php on line 289, referer: https://icecrown.hri.uci.edu/webmail/src/webmail.php
I'm not running any PHP other than webmail anyway and it seems to be working fine (Besides not being able to get vacation replies working) but I haven't done a lot of sending / receiving since this is a test box.