time();

mwood_2k2

Hi guys,

I am wondering how to set time by GMT +0 hours (i.e; london time) and I have looked in the manual about this function and I just don't get it, how to offset I mean, could someone tell me how the command should be laid out, heres the one I am currently using...


$time = time();

As the server that hosts this site isnt in england it has an offset of currently

7 hours behind what I need it to be... Can anyone help pweeeeaaaaseee lol.

Cheers in advance...

theeper

Try gmdate()

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gmdate.php

mwood_2k2

Hmmm, I don't get it, no matter what I'm setting as an offset it isnt changing the time etc that I post to the right time...wtf is up with this, even if I try and put it an hour in front with + 3600 it isnt doing it, I'm not even getting errors!

Agggh can someone help me please I don't understand this..

BTW: I am making adjustments to a message board..

theeper

Oops, misread your post originally.

This should work for you though.

<?
echo date("F j, Y, g:i a",time()+25200);
?>

You can change the first part to be formatted the way you want. All you needed to do was to add the 7 hour difference (in seconds) to your unix timestamp. This will display something like this, which should be seven hours ahead of your local time...

December 10, 2002, 10:42 pm

mwood_2k2

Thats not even working either man, the time and date etc that posts are entered into the database remain the same, no offset....screams and cries HELP! lol

Cheers for helping so far

theeper

Are you asking for a function to give you a time that is seven hours in the future from your local time?

Are you looking for a timestamp or a date?

mwood_2k2

the local time of the server that the message board resides on is 7 hours behind what my localtime is. I need to offset it for entering into the database, if you would like to know what forum it is for reference... its z-forum, from www.xgra.com

Thanks so much, if you can sort me out with this I'll praise u as a php god =]

LordRogaine

<? echo date("l F d, Y g:i a", mktime( date(H)+7) ); ?>

Try this. Notice (date(h)+7)) adding the "+7 " after date(h) should give you the correct hour.

LordRogaine

ooops, misread your post. Instead of +7 just make it -7. that should do the trick

mwood_2k2

For some reason, it STILL shows the same time, the server localtime not MY localtime....HJGLDKGDKD%784£ !! lol

Wtf is going on lol.

[ Update ] Still shows the same time - or + ... sigh

theeper

Ya, that returns the same thing as

echo date("F j, Y, g:i a",time()+25200);

except that I didn't include the day of the week.

I don't think that is what he wants though.

theeper

Post the code so we can see, must be a problem somewhere else.

mwood_2k2

Ok wow at my extreme newbness lol, I'm looking at the code that pulls the time out of the database from the posts entered, should I be looking at the post page?

theeper

Do you want to convert them before you load them into the DB, or when you are displaying them?

mwood_2k2

well, preferably the former, as when you post the time is displayed on the next page, as well as the thread list.

The way I think it works is $time is set as time() and when you fill in the form to post on the post page itself there is this code to display it on the next page...


strftime( "%c", $time )

Can you guys figure it out? cos I'm drawing a blank....

Cheers in advance

[ Update ]

Agggh I just twigged, the $time is reset as just time() on the post page, thats the answer isnt it?

theeper

Replace your time() function with one of the ones we already gave you, it should work fine.

mwood_2k2

Now its turned to;

Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969

Instead of Tue Dec 21:30:00 2002 lol

HUH?!

[ Updated ]

Even though I change both commands it still doesn't change it !! ffs!

mwood_2k2

Can you guys please just download the forum script and take a look @ the forum.php and post.php / reply.php pages and see what the problem is cos I just cant figure it out !! Heres a direct link to the download...

http://www.xgra.com/home/forum/forum.zip

right click save as obviously....hope to hear from you soon, and sorry to be a pest !!

mwood_2k2

Ok guys doesnt matter, I downloaded phpbb and took a look at how they select timezones, I found with messing that I got what I wanted! Heres the code that worked for me...

gmdate( time()+25320 . ' GMT')

Cheers guys you've been a massive help!! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Your php gods!!