date and time

watermelon

hi, i'm trying to get the current date and time when i modify my data. but, the time returned is the time in US not my pc datetime. what can i do? thank you.

JDcrack

The PHP date and time functions are going to return the date and time of the server

So if your PC is in GMT-8 and the server is in GMT +1
You are going to have a difference of 9 hours

If you want the date to show your timezone (the date/time on your PC) you will need to write a math function to add/subtract the correct number of hours:
see these functions:
date()
getdate()
mktime()

//eq. web server placed in london and user PC is in Indonesia. 
$today = getdate(mktime(date("H")+7)); 
$DAY = $today['mday']; 
$MONTH = $today['month']; 
$year = $today['year']; 
$HOUR = $today['hours'];

watermelon

sorry, could u pls tell me what is wrong with my coding:

$currentdate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$differencetolocaltime=13;
$new_U=date("U")-$differencetolocaltime;
$actualdate=date($currentdate, $new_U);
echo $currentdate;
echo $actualdate;

what i found is, the $currentdate is equal to $actualdate. how come? what's wrong? thank you.

JDcrack

You can't really do any math with just date()
as you have done above you will need to use mktime() then math:

$today = getdate(mktime(date("H")-13)); 
$day = $today['mday']; 
$month = $today['month']; 
$year = $today['year']; 
$hour = $today['hours'];
$minutes = $today['minutes'];
echo "today is " . $month . " ". $day . ", ". $year;
echo "  time is " . $hour . ":". $minutes;

watermelon

what if i want the date and time looks like this:

2003-03-27 13:08:34

i don't know how to format it? can u pls help out? what should i change in this coding:

$today = getdate(mktime(date("H")+13));
$day = $today['mday'];
$month = $today['month'];
$year = $today['year'];
$hour = $today['hours'];
$minutes = $today['minutes'];
$seconds = $today['seconds'];
$actualdate = "$year-$month-$day $hour:$minutes:$seconds";
echo $actualdate;

thank you.

JDcrack

Looks like somebody didn't do thier homework 🙂

You will find your answer here:
PHP Manual : getdate()