TimeZone Problem

tboneuls

I use the following code

date("h:i:s A")

and I get GMT. I am in the EST timezone, is there someway of changing the output by -5 hours? Thanks.

sadrik

Hi,

There are two ways:
1. You can use the localtime function
2. $myDate = mktime(date("H") - 5,date("i"),date("s"),date("m"),date("d"),date("Y") );

Hope that helps 🙂

tboneuls

Thanks I'll go try that.

ir4z0r

or just gmdate()
same usage as date()

tboneuls

How would I use the localtime function? Also, Sadrik wouldn't your second method give a negative time if the GMT is 1 oclock?

jpmoriarty

or...

$time_offset = -5;
$second_offset = $time_offset * 60 * 60;
$gmt = mktime() + $second_offset;
echo date("h:i:s A", $gmt);

sadrik

The function "localtime" return an array..similar to C.

Take a look here: 😉
http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.localtime.php

The mktime function calculates the timestamp in the right way.

mktime(date("H") - 5, ....)
returns your time -5 hours.

If it is 1:00 it will be the day before 21:00.

But this solution "mktime(date...)" is not very good, because you have to call date 6 times.

tboneuls

Thanks. Ill go try all of those things.

tboneuls

I tried the $myDate thing, and I get a number like 1048540002. Also, the code provided by jpmoriarty doesnt seem to work, I get my time minus five hours, so I got rid of the $gmt in the last line and it seems to be working. Weird. Thanks for all your help.

jpmoriarty

the time minus 5 hours is esactly what you asked for - if you take out the $gmt thing then it's just giving the time, so you dont need any of the help that's been given on this board at all. Are you sureyou're doing this on your hoster? Remember that the code that we've all given you is as you requested:

I use the following code

date("h:i:s A")

and I get GMT. I am in the EST timezone, is there someway of changing the output by -5 hours?