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stuartb
stuartb

Reputation: 364

PHP strtotime('UTC') different on another server

I have two different servers with a copy of the same PHP website.

Both servers are using the same timezone 'Pacific/Auckland'.

This code shows the same two numbers on server #1:

echo time();
echo strtotime('UTC');

1510607965 & 1510607965

But the same code is showing two different numbers on server #2:

1510607965 & 1510654765

Why would each server be different?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 467

Answers (2)

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

The first argument to strtotime() is supposed to be a string representing a timestamp, like 'Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:30:24 -0800' or '2017-11-13 15:30:24'. Passing the name of a time zone to this function, like 'UTC', will not yield a meaningful result.

Upvotes: 1

stuartb
stuartb

Reputation: 364

Both servers were using the same version of PHP but one of them had a problem with the timezone database.

I installed a new timezonedb and server #1 is showing the correct UTC time now.

Upvotes: 0

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