time difference

[Woodburn2006]

i am in the uk but my server is american so everytime i use:

$time = date('H:i');

 

it comes up with a time that is 6 hrs behind my time, is there anyway i can rectify this?

[almightyegg]

gmdate()

[Woodburn2006]

thanks, that has made it better but it is still 1 hour behind our time?

 

any ideas?

[Jessica]

Either change the timezone setting on the server, or add the difference in hours. Set a constant like

define('HOURS_DIFFERENCE', 6*3600);

 

and always add HOURS_DIFFERENCE to the time.

[Woodburn2006]

ok cool

 

ive had a look on the server and cannot find a way of changing the time on it.

 

i dont understand how you mean, i know basic php but havnt had to use times and define yet

[Jessica]

You'll want to have a config file which contains all of your important site wide data, such as the time difference constant. Include it on all your pages. Then when you need to use a timstamp, just add that constant to it. (Or it might be subtract, I get time zones confused which is ahead and which is behind, but you'll figure it out. If it goes more off use subtract).

[Woodburn2006]

ok, yeah i got a functions page that has all of the functions i would use over the whole site on it. i need to add 1 hour on to the time so what code would i put in my functions page to get that?

[Jessica]

You seriously cannot figure that out from what I said? I told you how to add six hours, and you're asking how to add one?

[Woodburn2006]

yeah because when i use gmdate() its only 1 hour behind but if i use date() then it is 6 hours behind

[Jessica]

So use date and add six hours, or use gmdate and add one hour.

 

date("H:i:s", time()+DIFFERENCE);

[MadTechie]

define('HOURS_DIFFERENCE', 6*3600);
date("H:i", time()+HOURS_DIFFERENCE);

 

EDIT: jesirose beat me (but it's her code, lol)

[Jessica]

well obviously the constants need to have the same name...