php date

[searls03]

why does everytime I use the php date function after 6 PM central time, it thinks it is the next day....I just use the day part of it, and it now thinks it is the 10 instead of 9

[Christian F.]

The server is running on a different time zone than yours. Check out "date_default_timezone_set ()"

[searls03]

but how come a timestamp inserts correctly then....isn't that part of the server?

[searls03]

How exactly do I incorporate with this piece of code?

 

$month = date("F Y");

$day = date("d");

$year = date("Y");

$date = date("Y-m-d");

 

I am looking and can't quite figure it out....

[scootstah]

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');

$month = date("F Y");
$day = date("d");
$year = date("Y");
$date = date("Y-m-d");

[MMDE]

Can't you set it in the php.ini file? The timezone I mean, if that is the problem.

[Christian F.]

Unix timestamps are always UTC (GMT+0), it's when you convert them to an actual date that you want to take the different timezones into consideration.

[scootstah]

You can use gmdate if you don't want to take the timezone into consideration.