Server Not Acting Right

[phpQuestioner]

All of a sudden today; my web host's server started acting strange. I have a time in one of my pages, like this:

 

$rightnow = date("g:i a");
echo $_GET['rightnow']

 

This will not even display this time.

 

So I just tried this:

 

$rightnow = date("g:i a");
echo "$rightnow";

 

It displayed the time like this; but it was way off and every time I reload the page; the minutes would either go way up or way down.

 

So I just tried to define a basic variable and use $_GET to display in page; like this:

 

$welcome = "Hello";
echo $_GET['welcome']

 

It would not display anything.

 

Does any one know why this might be happening? Has my server been hacked or just my filemanger?

[magic2goodil]

$_GET variables are variables listed in the address bar.  When you call the $_GET['welcome'] it is looking in the address bar.  leave your code how it is for a second and type this at the end of your address bar:

?welcome=Testing

 

see what that did?

[phpQuestioner]

That displays accurately; but why is my server time bouncing around when I use the code below?

 

$rightnow = date("g:i a");
echo "$rightnow";

 

It was not doing this a couple of days ago.

[phpQuestioner]

I do not understand why it would all of a sudden start doing this. Any idea why - was it hacked into, maybe....?

[magic2goodil]

I'm not sure on that to be honest.

[phpQuestioner]

Has anyone ever had this to happen on their server before; if so, how was it resolved? I emailed my web host; but unfortunately probably will not get a response until Monday or Tuesday.