pfSense

2.3-ALPHA built on Thu Oct 01 01:24:49 CDT 2015

After doing reset to factory defaults, this sort of timezone messages spew out on the console and the top of GUI pages:
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Warning: date(): 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. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /etc/inc/globals.inc on line 64

Call Stack:
0.0159 113152 1. {main}() /etc/ecl.php:0
0.0385 113532 2. require_once('/etc/inc/globals.inc') /etc/ecl.php:33
0.0475 115864 3. date() /etc/inc/globals.inc:64
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then after setting the timezone explicitly from General Setup and rebooting it seems happier - but I still get it in the dashboard System widget where it tries to show the update status.

I guess this is related to where Renato just recently changed the way the timezone is first set up.