My date.php is -
<?php
echo date('Y');
When I execute php -f date.php on my staging machine, I get error -
PHP Fatal error: date(): Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen!
in /home/staging/test/date.php on line 2
But when I execute the same on my local / dev machine it works. Although on both staging and local machines, permissions on /etc/localtime and /usr/share/zoneinfo/ are the same.
But output of file /etc/localtime vary on both machines.
Local (php5.3.5) :
/etc/localtime: timezone data, version 2, 4 gmt time flags, 4 std time flags, no leap seconds, 4 transition times, 4 abbreviation chars
Staging (php5.3.10) :
/etc/localtime: timezone data, version 2, 1 gmt time flag, 1 std time flag, no leap seconds, no transition times, 1 abbreviation char
While trying to find what the issue is I found this link from SO. I am confused over the accepted answer. My apache user is not executing the script.
What seems to be the problem? How do I resolve this issue?