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Reputation: 2484

time() results a different time

I think it has something to do with PHP Timezones. My current date and time is 10:51 pm , and 7/15/2013 . (I am on windows and my bottom right is showing it :) )

I use the following php code 

<?php
echo date("d/m/y : H:i:s", time());
?>

And the browser displayed: 15/07/13 : 19:06:15 (about 3 hours and 45 minutes early).

First Question: Why does it happen?

Second Question: If it is because PHP's default timezone is something else (mine is GMT 5:45), how can i edit the php's conf (or whatever) so that time() returns time for my timezone?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (3)

Andrew Cheong
Andrew Cheong

Reputation: 30313

Remember that PHP is server-side. The time it returns is bound to the server the code is running on. The php.ini setting is date.timezone. But you can use date_default_timezone_set to override the timezone specifically for your script. If you want to get the time in the timezone of the client, however, you have to use a client-side method like Javascript.

Upvotes: 2

Ziumin
Ziumin

Reputation: 4860

You should look date.timezone at your php.ini

Upvotes: 2

Pitchinnate
Pitchinnate

Reputation: 7566

You can either set the time zone in your php.ini file or you can do it in the code:

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
?>

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Also date_default_timezone_get() will show you what timezone you currently have set.

Upvotes: 3

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