Upgrade to 4.2.2 failed.

[NeoDio]

Hello, I tried upgrading my vBulletin 4.2.1 forum to 4.2.2 today. I followed the guide step by step to upgrade it. (https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html?...rsion=40201601)

Once I got done with all of it, I started getting Warnings everywhere about the timezone and two of my plugins. The admin panel was a complete blank except for the warnings.

I've already reverted my forum and database to the backups I created before I started the upgrade, but I would like some help on this issue if you don't mind.

Here are the Warnings I would get:

Warning: Non-static method VBSHOUT_CACHE::init() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in ..../dbtech/vbshout/hooks/global_start.php on line 16

Warning: Non-static method VBMAIL_CACHE::init() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in ..../dbtech/vbmail/hooks/global_start.php on line 14

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in ..../includes/functions.php on line 4912

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in ..../includes/functions.php on line 5104

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in ..../includes/functions.php on line 5093

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable 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/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in ..../includes/functions.php on line 5038

We use Hostgator as a web hosting provider and we don't have access to the php.ini file to change the timezone settings.

Thank you for your time, and have a good day.