DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (CST6CD

[guero2099]

Hello,

When I try to do a fresh install 3.3.6, and the installation script try to do the Backup I receive the follow error in the logs and I didn't see nothing happen in the GUI

DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (CST6CDT)

someone passed for this error?

Thanks!

[pe7er]

Which time zone did you configure in your Global Configuration?

What PHP version do you use?

[anabarcellos]

Peter, I have the same problem here.

- Updated from 2.5.24 to 2.5.28 - Success
- And and finally from 2.5.28 to 3.5.1.

- PHP Version 5.3.17

- No errors in apache log

(and yes, I disabled all 3rd part extensions before migrating and disabled all menus besides the home item - to avoid conflict with disabled extensions)

All other sites in the same server are ok.
I checked the timezone parameter creating the file below and it is working well.

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<?php
// Error handling by catching exceptions
$timezones = array('Europe/London', 'Mars/Phobos', 'Jupiter/Europa');

foreach ($timezones as $tz) {
    try {
        $mars = new DateTimeZone($tz);
    } catch(Exception $e) {
        echo $e->getMessage() . '<br />';
    }
}
?>

Based in several forum posts (Joomla, Wordpress, PHP etc etc), I did:

- updated all the "params" of all the #_users data to

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{"admin_style":"","admin_language":"","language":"","editor":"","helpsite":"","timezone":""}

- then updated the same datas forcing the timezone that I use in configuration.php
- then I updated again the #_users_data param to UTC and changed in my configuration.php
- then I deleted the #_users table and imported it again from a site where it is working (changing the prefix)
- commented the line: #public $offset = 'America/Sao_Paulo'; in configuration.php
- created new line with other timezone
- used it as just ' ';


I coud not fix the database yet because I can't access the backend since I migrated to 3.5.1.
Both (backend and frontend) return the same error (print screens attached).

I already spent 6 hours in this error and I am already feeling I am stupid. I don't know how many times I restored the backup.
Google has no more ideas for me - so I have no clue what to try now.

I'd appreciate a lot if someone could help me to understand what is happening so I can try to fix it.

[AMurray]

That first screenshot looks like it is the Bluestork admin template (from 2.5.x) which doesn't work in Joomla 3.x. You need to use the ISIS or HATHOR templates.

I suggest to try changing your admin template if you can access PHPMyAdmin (from your web-hosting account), go to your templates table, and edit the record(s) - change Bluestork to "0" (zero) and change ISIS to "1" (one). (0 to disable, 1 to enable).

[anabarcellos]

Thank you, A Murray!
That is another problem. I had to import template and template style manually.
Even with template updated I'm still having the timezone issue.