Peter Bending

Ok So you have your Apache server WIth PHP installed and you keep getting this error on your sites

date(): 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 ‘UTC’ for ‘GMT/0.0/no DST’ instead

OR

getdate(): 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 ‘UTC’ for ‘GMT/0.0/no DST’ instead

It turns out your shiny new server set up has changed if your using PHP 5.1 or greater you now need to tell php what time zone to use.

Rather than editing all your sites / scripts just update your .htaccess with

php_value date.timezone Europe/London

You can also set the default time zone in your php.ini file if you have access / the script should revert to UTC or GMt as it used to be but you will get the E_warning as above.

replacing Europe/London with the appropriate time zone for your server see full list: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

So Html5 isn’t due for release untill 2022 but sites like facebook are already using it?

Html5 is till being developed by the web Hypertext Application technology working group, and developemnt is still currently at “Working Draft – Last Call” the second of five total recommendation levels.

The basics are safari, Chrome, Firefox and no Internet Explorer (version 9) are using Html 5 on an increasing level and these technologies are being adopted by an increasing number of sites so we could argue Html 5 is here already albeit in Beta.

What can I do with Html5 that I couldn’t do before with Html 4 and some plugins?

Thats just it you don’t need the plugins,

But if the plugins are available why not just use them?

As plug ins are not set by an independent body as an industry standard they will not necessarily be available on all platforms, and in the case of Flash and Divx they can be very hardware intensive regularly causing crashes on lower spec machines.

So what is available with Html5 and where can I see some examples?

The biggest changes are media markup tags such as <audio>, <video>, and <canvas>.

We can see the audio tag in use here: Note you’ll want to get a html5 browser such as safari or chrome, opened to enjoy these examples.

http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/audio/

http://www.jezra.net/projects/pageplayer

The video tag has been adopted by Youtube, BBC iPlayer, and vimeo.

http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/video/

The canvas tag is at work, with gmail, and scribd.

So you lke wat you hear?

Here’s some of the best examples on the web currently of html5.

http://www.apple.com/html5/

http://studio.html5rocks.com/

This site is using it all <canvas>, <audio>, and <video>

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

I like what I see how do I learn how?

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

http://www.html5rocks.com/

Here are the latest tutorials from Html 5 Rocks .com

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I’ve often found cause to complain at the slow uptake of the latest serevr technologies when working on different projects.

I take it all back…

9 hours into re-compiling Apache and php on Mac os X server.