Setting Offsets with Date()

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Right, I want to show the current date on my website, along with the time, but the thing is my server is set to be 9 hours ahead of me, take a look at http://www.bluesweb.co.uk/ , if I used the function :

Code:

<?

echo date ("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");

?>

It would give me a time 9 hours ahead of what I wanted, I just wondered how I could set an offset, so it would give me the correct time rather than the one set by default on the server.

What parameters would I need to use in my PHP code?

Thanks

Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 5:00 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

use

date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A", time()-9*3600);

time() will return the current timestamp and

-9*3600 will decrease seconds in 9 hours

simple, wasn't it? eh Smile

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 2:22 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

...you can also use Gmdate()

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Darren wrote:

...you can also use Gmdate()

ended up using Jayants way as I got some weird results with Gmdate

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 5:17 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

Seems to be working fine for me

What kind of 'weird results' did you get? just in case its something I haven't noticed.

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Darren wrote:

Seems to be working fine for me

What kind of 'weird results' did you get? just in case its something I haven't noticed.

On a certain Cyberwings Server, it was displaying the day after on the date when I used that, fine on my eCommerceDiscovery Server though.