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I have a wordpress website which suddenly stopped working today. When I look at the logs I see and error: [error] [client 50.78.108.177] PHP Fatal error: strtotime(): Timezone database is corrupt - this should never happen! After reading up on google one person said that they discovered a permissions problem in /usr/share/zoneinfo . I tried changing the permissions to 777, 775, 770 and I still keep on getting the same error. I am running php PHP 5.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. Any suggestions or recommendations would be helpful.If all else fails I'm going to try downgrading to an earlier version of php but I wanted to try other things before doing that. thanks, Timnit Update just in case it helps: the error points to strtotime in the function below function mysql2date( $dateformatstring, $mysqlstring, $translate = true ) { $m = $mysqlstring; if ( empty( $m ) ) return false; if ( 'G' == $dateformatstring ) return strtotime( $m . ' +0000' ); $i = strtotime( $m ); if ( 'U' == $dateformatstring ) return $i; if ( $translate ) return date_i18n( $dateformatstring, $i ); else return date( $dateformatstring, $i ); } Update#2: for now I have fixed the problem by simply having the function above return false; without performing anything. However I still haven't figured out the root cause of the problem. update#3: var_dump($dateformatstring) string(5) "d.m.y" string(1) "m" string(5) "d.m.y" string(1) "m" string(5) "d.m.y" string(1) "m" var_dump($mysqlstring) string(19) "2011-10-20 05:35:01" string(19) "2011-10-20 05:35:01" string(19) "2011-10-20 05:25:22" string(19)

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