Server time +8 hours?

[woolyg]

Hi all,

 

I'm inputting a DATETIME timestamp of $now into my table

 

<?
$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
?>

- which enters the exact time of update into the table. The problem is, is that I'm in Dublin (GMT) and the hosting server is in the US - 7 hours behind - so if I entered data at exactly midday in dublin, the value displayed is 5am.

Can someone guide me as to how I can alter the variable [b]$now[/b] to show Dublin time?

Any help appreciated,
Woolyg

[hitman6003]

Use the setlocale function

 

http://www.php.net/setlocale

[woolyg]

..so if I use the setlocale function at the start of a page, my '$now' declaration will return Dublin time?

 

Does the following work, or would I need to follow GB for GMT?

<?php
/* Set locale to Ireland */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ie_IE');
?>

 

Thanks,

Woolyg

 

[hitman6003]

I gave you the wrong function...I think this one would be better:

 

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Dublin');

 

http://www.php.net/date_default_timezone_set()

[woolyg]

Hmm - I placed this towards the start of the page but now the page isn't displaying.

[hitman6003]

What version of php are you using?  That will only work in php >= 5.1

 

This post may help...

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php#75648

[woolyg]

Ah crud. The host's PHP version is 4.4.6.

 

Any other way it can be done?

[lightningstrike]

umm perhaps this.

 

$stamp = time() - (8*3600);
$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$stamp);

[woolyg]

Cheers all - I ended up using

 

$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+7 hours'));

 

 

Hope there's no underlying problems with using it in this manner...

 

Woolyg