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Reputation: 5193

PHP ignoring my date.timezone?

time() keeps producing the same timestamp , even though in my php.ini I keep toggling between

date.timezone = "Asia/Irkutsk"

and

date.timezone = "Europe/Belgrade"

phpinfo():

date/time support   enabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version   2012.3
Timezone Database   internal
Default timezone    Asia/Irkutsk 

date/time support   enabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version   2012.3
Timezone Database   internal
Default timezone    Europe/Belgrade

Timestamps stays the same. Howcome?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1842

Answers (3)

user5340092
user5340092

Reputation:

I was having this problem and spoke to my host, they explained that any timezone setting in php.ini is ignored and that the .htaccess file must be changed as follows;

Add this to .htaccess

php_value date.timezone "Europe/London"

Then display using

echo date('d-m-Y H:i');

Upvotes: 0

Sed
Sed

Reputation: 6381

You need to restart PHP after making changes in php.ini

Upvotes: 1

Evert
Evert

Reputation: 99523

You made the wrong assumption.

Unix timestamps are always in UTC. No exception. Changing the timezone does not change the exact moment of the epoch (1st of january, 1970), so the number of seconds since then will always be 'correct'.

Upvotes: 3

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