American Date Problem

[stevesimo]

Hi, I am fairly new to PHP and am not sure how I get the current date into a variable.  The complication is that I am based in the UK but the server is based in America.  Does anyone know how I would get around this problem.

 

I have got the following code, is this valid?

 

  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'eng-GB');

  $mydate = date();

 

Many thanks

 

Steve (Blackpool) 

[Tyche]

Almost right - the setlocale only impacts strftime not date

try :

$mydate=strftime('%c');

 

- time will still be local server time

 

 

also date() requires a date formatting string - so you could use 

 

$mydate = date('r');

 

which will use the RFC 2822 date format e.g. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:53:07 +0500 for a US EST based server

 

or use gmdate('r') to return the GMT time

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Sorry not really thinking

 

you can convert the date to UK format using

 

$mydate=strftime('%d/%m/%Y');

 

To read 27/02/2007