Setting date.timezone in php.ini does not work

Question

Snapshot of the output of phpinfo() function:

As I am trying to install Roundcube which requires to set date.timezone, I would like to set date.timezone by filling the date.timezone field in php.ini.

Server Configuration

• Debian 9 (Stretch)
• PHP 7.0.19-1 (cli) (built: May 11 2017 14:04:47) ( NTS )
• Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)

What I tried

According to http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php, I modified the date.timezone field from both /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini with different syntaxes:

date.timezone = Europe/Paris
date.timezone = 'Europe/Paris'
date.timezone = "Europe/Paris"

And I always restarted Apache after any change.

Nothing change in phpinfo, the date.timezone field is always set to "no value" and the first step of the installation of Roundcube, date.timezone is NOT OK.

But when I try:

php -i

I get:

date/time support => enabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version => 0.system
Timezone Database => internal
Default timezone => Europe/Paris

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
date.default_latitude => 31.7667 => 31.7667
date.default_longitude => 35.2333 => 35.2333
date.sunrise_zenith => 90.583333 => 90.583333
date.sunset_zenith => 90.583333 => 90.583333
date.timezone => Europe/Paris => Europe/Paris

I read many pretty old posts about this type of issue but the different solutions did not work for me. Any idea?

EDIT

According to phpinfo():

Configuration File (php.ini) Path

/etc/php/7.0/apache2

Loaded Configuration File

/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

Scan this dir for additional .ini files

/etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d

Additional .ini files parsed

/etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-opcache.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-pdo.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/15-xml.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-calendar.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-ctype.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-curl.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-dom.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-exif.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-ftp.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-gd.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-gettext.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-iconv.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-imagick.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-imap.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-intl.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-json.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-mbstring.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-memcache.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-pdo_sqlite.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-phar.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-posix.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-pspell.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-readline.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-recode.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-shmop.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-simplexml.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-snmp.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sockets.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sqlite3.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-tidy.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-wddx.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-xmlreader.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-xmlrpc.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-xmlwriter.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-xsl.ini

Answer 1

I have found the problem. It was a syntax error in my php.ini file in the error_reporting area.