Bring GMT+1 date and time from anywhere

Grizzzly

Hi,

I developed a forum for a customer located in Paris.

But files PHP are stored on a server in Canada.

So the posted date and hour are always those of the server in Canada (GMT-5) instead of hour of France (GMT+1). :mad:

How can I use gmstrftime and gmmktime function to code a function which return hour GMT+1 ?

Thanks for your help ! 🙂

bobthedog

Simplest way would be to generate the GMT timestamp using gmmktime, then just add an hour to it in seconds (60*60). This will then give you a timestamp in GMT + 1.

Grizzzly

There is my test :

setlocale('LC_TIME', 'fr_FR');
print "gmstrftime("%A, %d %B %Y, %H:%M", gmmktime());

I run the program from Paris, sunday, at 21:00

Result :

dimanche, 29 septembre 2002, 15:00

where dimanche means Sunday (in French)

But this result seams to be wrong. If the REAL time is 21:00 in Paris (GMT+1), it means GMT+0 is equal to 20:00, right ?

So why do I get 15:00 instead of 20:00 ?
I know 15:00 was the time in Eastern Canada at this moment.

Thanks for help !

bobthedog

Ok - think about what you are saying here. You try getting gmttime and it's wrong.

Now - 2 possibilities spring to mind.

1, PHP's gmmktime function doesn't work at all - and returns any old time it feels like. Hmmm - doubtful I think - possible, but doubtful

2, Your server doesn't have the correct timezone set.

Personally, I would go for the 2nd option. Try running "date('O');" to find the current time zone diference from GMT. This may point you in the right direction.

If you find the ISP have the wrong timexzone set, then good luck to you in getting them to change it. I would favour working around this problem by adding the required offset.