# Time zone problem on EMR **URL:** \ **Category:** Management and Administration\ **Created:** [August 3, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830 "2017-08-03T00:25:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/1 "2017-08-03T00:25:59Z")
My EMR calendar after 6pm, starting showing next day calendar. Today 08/02/2017 but my calendar now after 6 pm showing - Thursday, August 3, 2017. In this case I cant create new encounters from calendars for arrived patients Please let me know how to resolve this problem ---
**Author:** ![MFCmanager](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/mfcmanager/32/11004_2.png) [@MFCmanager](https://community.open-emr.org/u/MFCmanager)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/2 "2017-08-03T04:58:34Z")
Try this, it worked for me. > [@Change Time zone](https://community.open-emr.org/t/change-time-zone/8790/4): > > Hello @Alzjaimer and @MFCmanager, Suggest looking for a second timezone setting in php.ini In XAMPP 5.6.20 there are two. One at about half way through the file (inactive (commented out)) and another near the end (active). ---
**Author:** ![visolveemr](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/visolveemr/32/10974_2.png) [@visolveemr](https://community.open-emr.org/u/visolveemr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/3 "2017-08-03T10:56:05Z")
Hi ncavalier, Make sure that you are having the “date.timezone” variable in php.ini as per your location. If not,please follow the below steps: 1.Follow the link to find your time zone value [http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php](http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php) 2.Open the php.ini file[dir: /etc/php5/apache2/] and change the variable as per your location [date.timezone = America/Los\_Angeles] 3.Finally save and restart your apache web server. Let us know,above solution solves your problem.If the problem persists,share the screen-shot. Thanks [ViSolve](http://www.visolve.com/hc/) ---
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/4 "2017-09-13T01:53:36Z")
I did all recommended corrections, but problem still not resolved Attached picture with time zone change ![20170912_211152 (571x640)](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/083b76ccc0a1246c615581a5e7b940e5e5578aa1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![stephenwaite](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/stephenwaite/32/15754_2.png) [@stephenwaite](https://community.open-emr.org/u/stephenwaite)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/5 "2017-09-13T02:09:34Z")
@ncavalier remove the leading semicolon which comments out the setting and restart the webserver ---
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/6 "2017-09-13T02:16:16Z")
I have a problem after restarting program Cant login Error message Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb\_internal\_encoding() in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\interface\globals.php on line 127 ---
**Author:** ![stephenwaite](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/stephenwaite/32/15754_2.png) [@stephenwaite](https://community.open-emr.org/u/stephenwaite)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/7 "2017-09-13T02:42:48Z")
ok @ncavalier checkout your php.ini settings, you need `extension=php_mbstring.dll` for xampp > if you’re running linux see this [http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR\_System\_Architecture#OpenEMR\_Dependencies](http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_System_Architecture#OpenEMR_Dependencies) ---
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/8 "2017-09-13T03:26:40Z")
Thank you for reply I’m just out of office. It’s 11 already, will try to resolve it tomorrow morning I didn’t touch anything, just added Amerika\_New York, and there was no any changes. But after restarted computer, received error message What I need to do resolve this problem ---
**Author:** ![stephenwaite](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/stephenwaite/32/15754_2.png) [@stephenwaite](https://community.open-emr.org/u/stephenwaite)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/9 "2017-09-13T10:26:58Z")
say you’re running ubuntu with mysql then look about half way down the above openemr dependencies link which instructs you to run this from the command line `sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php libtiff-tools php php-mysql php-cli php-gd php-xsl php-curl php-mcrypt php-soap php-json php-gettext imagemagick php-mbstring php-zip php-ldap` then `sudo service apache2 restart` ---
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/10 "2017-09-13T11:07:31Z")
Good morning Stephen Thank you for your help! Im using Windows for my EMR. All I did, just added New York time zone in php file, and saved . First it was no reaction in time zone update. After I restarted apache server, it’s started problem to login ---
**Author:** ![visolveemr](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/visolveemr/32/10974_2.png) [@visolveemr](https://community.open-emr.org/u/visolveemr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/11 "2017-09-13T11:37:35Z")
Hi ncavaller, Can you please send the error log to examine the issue further. Thanks [ViSolve](http://www.visolve.com/hc) ---
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/12 "2017-09-13T14:07:05Z")
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb\_internal\_encoding() in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\interface\globals.php on line 127 ---
**Author:** ![ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/ncavalier/32/13923_2.png) [@ncavalier](https://community.open-emr.org/u/ncavalier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/13 "2017-09-13T15:05:52Z")
Thank you Stephan and visolveemr for your support, I resolved problem with login, I put by mistake coma before php,ini Now I just need to resolve problem with time zone Thank you very mach!!! ---
**Author:** ![visolveemr](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/visolveemr/32/10974_2.png) [@visolveemr](https://community.open-emr.org/u/visolveemr)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/time-zone-problem-on-emr/8830/14 "2017-09-15T05:26:12Z")
@ncavalier, ![imageedit_1_9737024869](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/3/3b861c8b3fc57e23645e0021b4b5b72ac746b9eb.jpg) Did you removed the leading semicolon in php.ini file , Which has been highlighted in the above image. Thanks, [ViSolve](http://www.visolve.com/hc).