Time and how to add/subtract it.

[Perad]

I just have 2 questions really.

When you make a post on the forum, is the servers time saved to the database? Or is it the time on your computers clock?

Secondly does anyone know of any good articles that explain how to add and subtract time. Mainly hours.

[Daniel0]

PHP's time functions return times based on the time of the server.

About subtracting and adding to time:
If you use time() just do it like regular calculations with + or -
If you use a formatted time stamp you can use [url=http://php.net/strtotime]strtotime()[/url]

[konnwat]

its the servertime and it must have been retrieved with the time() function

try [URL=http://uk.php.net/time]http://uk.php.net/time[/URL]

[Daniel0]

Great job on repeating what I said...

Besides, it mustn't be retrieved be retrieved with [url=http://php.net/time]time()[/url], there are several other functions that will give you the time of the server.

[SharkBait]

He's response wasn't that far away from yours ;)

[Hypnos]

MySQL has it's own time and date functions that can store the current time and date in any common format.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html

If you're storing your dates/times in MySQL, it's best to use this stuff, rather than overly complexing it with PHP code.

[konnwat]

yeah i started posting that post and then the forum said someone else had posted but i didn't go back and read what you said so i just posted. sorry bout that ;)