the "date" command give the following on my server so i think the date is ok (correct me if i am wrong) Fri Dec 26 14:58:27 MST 2014 In php.ini date.timezone = "US/Mountain" [root at sv1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ZONE="US/Mountain" Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,255769,255803#msg-255803