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(Upgraded from 3.15>3.21 before migration)

I have migrated second CiviCRM site to a new location and have gotten this error, again- many times down the top of several pages in the CiviCRM part of the Drupal install:
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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 'America/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Dashboard.php on line 226.

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# warning: mktime(): 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 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Utils/Date.php on line 217.
# warning: strftime(): 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 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Utils/Date.php on line 217.

Lobo has earlier replied that CiviCRM does not use a "timezone." However- the last part of the line says:  civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Dashboard.php on line 226.
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I noted that when I exported the database using PHPmyadmin, it says in the file name save box:

"Filename template 1(superscript) 1

This value is interpreted using strftime, so you can use time formatting strings. Additionally the following transformations will happen: __SERVER__/ server name __DB__/ database name. Other text will be kept as is."

It seems the strftime is being added and that is a problem on import.

Is this a Drupal or a CiviCRM problem? Is there a value in either SQL database I can change to fix it?

Thanks- I did a lot of surfing and Googling the web to find many mentions of this problem with PHP 5.3.

In Mac OSX server there are 3 php.ini files! I changed them all, and the final thing that made the errors go away was fixing the .htacces file. I also put a line in the PHP 5 area about timezone.