PHP date function returning wrong date, how can I specify my time zone?

Question

<?php echo date('m/d/Y',time());?>

echos

07/13/2013

when it should echo

07/12/2013

Is there a server config I should change and if there is where could I find it? Thank you My time zone is (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Answer 1

Check out date_default_timezone_set:

Example:

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');