Help with strtotime

[Hobbyist_PHPer]

Hi, I have this application where I am going to store the datetime's in UTC, and then when printed out they will be adjusted by the user's setting's time zone, time difference..., but I'm having an issue...

 

For some reason, this code won't work...

<? 
$timeDiff = $_SESSION['DirectExaminerCompanyTimeZone'] * 3600;
echo date('n-d-Y @ g:i a', strtotime($row['OrderTicketStatusDateTime']) $timeDiff); 
?>

The session variable in this case equals -6

 

If I code in -6 * 3600 instead of putting in the variable, it works, otherwise it just gives me an error

 

I also tried this, a bit of code I found on Stackoverflow, but no go either...

<? echo date('n-d-Y @ g:i a', strtotime($timeDiff, strtotime($row['OrderTicketStatusDateTime']))); ?>

[requinix]

What would be even easier is to use date_default_timezone_set.

date_default_timezone_set("America/Whatever is for Central");
echo date("n-d-Y @ g:i a', $row['OrderTicketStatusDateTime']);

Except you need a timezone string, not a number.

[Hobbyist_PHPer]

What would be even easier is to use date_default_timezone_set.

date_default_timezone_set("America/Whatever is for Central");
echo date("n-d-Y @ g:i a', $row['OrderTicketStatusDateTime']);

Except you need a timezone string, not a number.

 

I'm not really sure how that would work in this application since all datetime fields are stored in UTC and then need to be displayed in the user's local timezone

[lemmin]

You need an operator between the return value of strtotime and your offset variable. The reason it works when you manually type that out is because the negative symbol is being parsed as the operator.

 

Try this:

 

<? 
$timeDiff = $_SESSION['DirectExaminerCompanyTimeZone'] * 3600;
echo date('n-d-Y @ g:i a', strtotime($row['OrderTicketStatusDateTime']) + $timeDiff); 
?>

[Hobbyist_PHPer]

You need an operator between the return value of strtotime and your offset variable. The reason it works when you manually type that out is because the negative symbol is being parsed as the operator.

 

Try this:

 

<? 
$timeDiff = $_SESSION['DirectExaminerCompanyTimeZone'] * 3600;
echo date('n-d-Y @ g:i a', strtotime($row['OrderTicketStatusDateTime']) + $timeDiff); 
?>

 

Yes, perfect, thank you very much for catching that