Date Function

[gple]

$date=date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

 

This is returning me the GMT time instead of EST. I get 15:26:08 as the time instead of 10:26:08. How can I get around this?

[johnny86]

<?php
$date = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Your/Timezone'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";

// Example
$date = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Europe/Helsinki'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";
// 2010-12-28 17:38:45
?>

[the182guy]

To do it script wide so that all your date() calls will be in the specified timezone use:

 

date_default_timezone_set('EST');

[gple]

so what would i put in for new york time?

DateTimeZone('America/New York')?

[johnny86]

http://fi.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php

America/New_York