Browscap and secure pages - Timezone Warning

Upon enabling the secure pages module with browscap running I get the following error

Warning: browscap_exit() [function.browscap-exit]: 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/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /home/learning/public_html/sites/all/modules/browscap/browscap.module on line 99

Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_access() in /home/learning/public_html/sites/all/modules/browscap/browscap.module on line 99