title: DateTime timezone not found in database
body: <p>Did anyone else had this strange problem?
  Error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message
    'DateTime::__construct():  Failed to parse time string (01/18/2016
    00:00 AM America/New_York)  at position 17 (A): The timezone could not
    be found in the database'</p>
    
    <p>Exception: DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string
    (01/18/2016 00:00 AM America/New_York) at position 17 (A): The
    timezone could not be found in the database</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Original PHP Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$datetime = new DateTime(trim(html_entity_decode($this-&gt;input-&gt;post('publish_date').' '.$_POST['schedule_time'].' '.$_POST['schedule_meridian'] . ' ' .$_POST['schedule_timezone'])));
  $date = $datetime-&gt;format('D, d M Y H:i:s O');
  </code></pre>