post modx install - issue logging in to the manager

I have been working with modx 0.9.6 for a while now and I was attempting to install modx evolution 1.0.0 on a fresh install of xampp-win32-1.7.2

Xampp installed fine. Modx installed without a hitch and I can access the demo page that is part of the modx install, but when I try to login to the manager the following text (html tags and all) appears in a pop up dialog box:



<b>Warning</b>: 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. We selected ’America/New_York’ for ’-4.0/DST’ instead in
<b>C:\xampp\htdocs\manager\includes\document.parser.class.inc.php(746) : eval()’d code</b> on line <b>51</b>

Location: http://localhost/manager/

and does not login... Anyone seen this before or know what this could be?

Thanks! Hope I put this in the right forum...

PHP 5.3 requires that the timezone be set, usually in php.ini.

http://bobsguides.com/modx-installation-faq.html
Note that XAMPP has more than one php.ini file. You want the one in /apache/bin.

While you’re in the neighborhood, edit /apache/conf/httpd.conf and uncomment the following line in case you want to have Friendly URLs in MODx later:



XAMPP has mod_rewrite off by default.