Client's Date

[Anon]

Is it possible to get the client's date in a unix timestamp without the user specifying so? Or anytime stamp? I would not mind receiving it from Java or any languange first, but can it be sent to PHP through some sort of query?

Anyway, I just want to get the time froma user's machine without them having to specify it.

Thanx in advance.

[sarahk]

Is it sent in the http headers?

Only other way is if you can get them to submit a form. Then you could have a hidden field created by javascript with the date and time (client side processing so client side time).

To get them to submit the form you might need to have a link to another page which the user will want to click eg <a href="javascript:submit();">Click Me</a> but because it's not a true hyperlink the search engines won't be able to follow it. This may not be an issue for you.

[Anon]

Use php time(); function. Then when they do anything within your php script, you can get the time they did it without using a submit button.

Even if the script is just a display one, it will work.

$now = time();

$now is your integer, I prefer to let php handle the dates and times in this format instead of using mysql's timestamps or date formats because it's WAY easier from my experience. You can call up the date, time, hour, minute, second, year etc by using:

$when_they_did_it = date("l m/d/y h:I:s", $date);

Works wonderfully.