PHP Fatal Error - strtotime - Timezone database is corrupt

[stageman]

I'm not exactly sure when this started happening. I'm guessing it happened when I updated my server to CentOS 5.3. But whenever it started, I am now getting the following error when I try to bring up cacti:

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[Sun Jun 07 23:24:17 2009] [error] [client 192.168.15.141] PHP Fatal error:  strtotime() [<a href='function.strtotime'>function.strtotime</a>]: Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen! in /var/www/netstats/pub-html/cacti/include/global_constants.php on line 156

I have looked high and low for an answer. I've tried to set the default timezone in php.ini as described here: Link

Basically they want you to try and install the database using pecl. This fails.

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pecl install timezonedb          
downloading timezonedb-2009.8.tgz ...
Starting to download timezonedb-2009.8.tgz (195,596 bytes)
.............................done: 195,596 bytes

Fatal error: strtotime(): Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen! in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Validate.php on line 486

I also tried to set a default timezone in php.ini.

Help...

Some vitals:

CentOS 5.3
cacti 0.87d
apache 2.2.3-22
php 5.1.6
mysql 5.0.45

[stageman]

Thanks to anyone that looked at this. I searched and searched and finally came across someone that installed the PHP 5.2.9 packages from here and everything is working normally now. Of note, I also discovered once I got back into the web interface that cacti had died altogether. So I lost all of my data during the time this issue was happening.

[TheWitness]

Sorry to hear that. In the future, you should always have one production system and one test system to test things out on. Servers are a dime a dozen these days, and it's worth the investment.

TheWitness