I am beyond frustrated. I have confirmed with PHPinfo which php.ini file is being loaded, and double checked that it has the date.timezone set to "Canada/Eastern". other posts online seem to indicate that the quotations shouldn't be there so i delete them, save the file, restart the server and try to install again but it continues to fail. on further investigation the quotations have returned every time i restart the server.
i am using a Mac so i tried running a command in terminal to see what value date.timezone contained and it says no value. i am new to this sort of thing and very confused. can anybody help?