Incorporate changes made for old version 5.2.4.3

distfiles/settings.php

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
     SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 */
 
+// determine today's date and time and assign them to variables
+$today = date("Y-m-d");
+$now = date("H:i:s");
+
 $sttl=mysqli_fetch_row(mysqli_query($db,"select confvalue from configs where confname=\"session_ttl_days\""))[0];
 $ostype=strtoupper(substr(php_uname('s'), 0, 3));
 if ($ostype == 'WIN') {