From c930f93725a0a767560a85f696f3f39da175cd8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 04:49:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Bug#24308 where, on some platforms the date_create()
 function fails when the timezone isn't specified.

---
 includes/Preferences.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/Preferences.php b/includes/Preferences.php
index 37563ddfdf..fd5f23369b 100644
--- a/includes/Preferences.php
+++ b/includes/Preferences.php
@@ -1202,7 +1202,8 @@ class Preferences {
 			$prefill = array_fill_keys( array_values( $tzRegions ), array() );
 			$opt = array_merge( $opt, $prefill );
 
-			$now = date_create( 'now' );
+			global $wgLocaltimezone;
+			$now = date_create( 'now', $wgLocaltimezone );
 
 			foreach ( $tzs as $tz ) {
 				$z = explode( '/', $tz, 2 );
-- 
2.20.1