Thanks, I added date.timezone = ''America/Chicago"; logged out and back in and still get the pink banner.
The error logs says:
[17-Aug-2012 20:44:54 UTC] PHP Warning: strtotime() [<a href='function.strtotime'>function.strtotime</a>]: 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.
I looked up some info @ php.net and just changed it to read:
date.timezone = "America/New_York"
Same pink banner upon log-in.
Last log entry reads:
[17-Aug-2012 21:29:55 UTC] PHP Warning: date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: 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.