why doesn't this work: date() question

[Lodius2000]

this should automatically select the correct hour to display based on the real time, so that I dont have to set it manually

it is part of a larger script that I may sometimes have to change the date, but i would like it to default to the actual time so that i dont have to mess with it the majority of the time

 

<?php
$defaults = array('hour'   => date('g'));
$hours = array();
for ($hour = 1; $hour <= 12; $hour++) { $hours[$hour] = $hour;}

//print a select menu

function input_select($element_name, $selected, $options, $multiple = false){
//print out the <select> tag
print '<select name="' . $element_name;
// if multiple choices are permitted, add the multiple attribute
// and add a [] to the end of the tag name
if ($multiple){ print '[]" multiple="multiple'; }
print '">';

//set up the list of things to be selected
$selected_options = array();
if ($multiple) {
	foreach ($selected[$element_name] as $val){
		$selected_options[$val] = true;
	}
} else {
	$selected_options[ $selected[$element_name] ] = true;
}

//print out the <option> tags
foreach ($options as $option=>$label) {
	print '<option value="' . htmlentities($option) . '"';
	if ($selected_options[$option]){
		print ' selected="selected"';
		}
	print '>' . htmlentities($label) . '</option>';
}
print '</select>';
}

input_select('hour',$defaults,$hours);
?>

 

for some reason during the 11 am hour it was using 1 as selected, now during the noon hour it is using 2, and not included in this example is an ampm selector, in the script, it has shown am during both hours.

 

on top of that on my website

print date('r');

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:28:00 -0400

 

the time is currently 1228 in my timezone (mountain)

 

thanks in avance