gmttime()?

[smerny]

Hey,

 

date('Y-m-d g:i a', time())

 

gives me

 

2009-12-22 8:19 pm

 

when the GMT time is

 

2009-12-22 3:19 am

 

how can i make time() use GMT time?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The problem is not the time() function, the problem is the date() function. It takes into account the current time zone setting. See this link - http://us3.php.net/gmdate

[smerny]

hmm.. this is what i was trying to do

 

$endtime = mktime(0,0,0,12,30,2009);
$currenttime = time();
$timeleft = ($endtime - $currenttime);

and then figure out the days/hours until the endtime based on the timeleft... it was giving me the wrong time so i tested the time() like in my first post... i'm still unsure how to use the gmdate

 

the example says

 

echo gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1998));

 

what is the 1/1/1998 date all about? like how does it return "Dec 31 1997 22:00:00"? and do i need to do date formatting stuff to figure out the difference?

 

 

edit:

 

maybe it wasn't the date, it was the mktime that was off? and should be gmmktime? i did this and it seems to be working... still have the questions above i'm confused about