Hopefully it doesn’t resort to replacing everything hopefully it’s only the php.ini.
Just have a wee check again if the php.ini is correct. Have a wee look at the first part of this thread maybe that will help.
It appears that PHP left in that bug which calls an exception fatal when it should be a fall back https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73239
So we need to fix the invalid date.timezone first. As I said I’m not sure if America/New_York; (especially the semi-colon) is correct.
Just have a double check what it is. If you have reset it does it also reset it to America/New_York?
date.timezone = "America/New_York"
Try it without the semi-colon.
Also regarding the config.php that was a mistake on my part, I was getting it confused with something else - I’ll edit my comment on that. It appears to be only available via php.ini or manually setting it
There is other ways to manually set the timezone, whether it will work at an application level or not, haven’t quite tested it yet. This is only just to test that the php.ini is causing the issue.
Try inserting the below into
date_default_timezone_set(“America/New_York”);
Let us know how you get on.