saving times

[therob1]

Hi, im new to php and recently ive noticed that code 

$timeidverified=date('H:i:s');

  i wrote last year isnt working now as i had expected due to british summer time. all im using it for is to check some db fields are updated, but at the moment everything appears to be 1 hour behind.

 

I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way that the server would just know and update the time accordingly, like in windows it just does it without telling/worrying you ?