Having trouble concatenating

[leke]

I don't get why this fails. date() is meant to be a string, so why does it not concatenate correctly?

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$inputTime = date('c');
$inputTime = $inputTime . ' (UTC)';
// or $inputTime = date('c') . ' (UTC)';

Thanks.

[Maq]

What's the error, or how is it failing?

[scootstah]

It outputs

2012-01-16T21:17:55+00:00 (UTC)

 

What's the problem?

[leke]

No error returned, but the date returned is just January 01st 1970 - 12:00am (without UTC). If I remove the . ' UTC', the correct date is shown.

 

Here is some more code that is related to the date...

// Format the time/Date
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$inputTime = date('c');
$inputTime = $inputTime . ' (UTC)';

// Send all data so far, to an array.
$entry_array = array();
array_push($entry_array, $inputTime, $userName, $message_br);

// write the array to CSV file.
$fp = fopen('messages.txt', 'a');
fputcsv($fp, $entry_array, "|");
fclose($fp);

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