TimeStamp Help

rubric

I've never had this problem before until I moved over seas. I'm responsible for a system, which is heavily dependent on Timestamps, that's currently running in Texas, which is Central Time (GMT -6:00). In order to keep my work local, I built a duplicate of the server in the U.S. here in Amman, Jordan. During installation, I set it up to Amman Time (GMT +2:00). Everything works exactly like it should except for time stamps.

If I run this line of code from both servers, I get two different results:

echo date("m/d/Y g:i A",0);

In Jordan it's: 01/01/1970 2:00 AM

In Texas it's: 12/31/1969 6:00 PM

I understand the problem with the GMT offset and I changed the Time Zone and the time of the Jordanian Server to the Texas Server and it still does the same thing. There is a setting somewhere I'm missing and I would like to solve this problem without re-installing Linux. Does any one out there know what I'm talking about?

Thanks in advance.

Rubric

The_Chancer

If you use the "T" portion of the date function, you get the timezone fo the machine, from which you should be able to add / subtract the correct number of seconds to get the timestamps to match...

All it would be is if (date("T", time())=='EST') {$timestamp=$timestamp+(however many seconds);}

Something like that would sort it...

Or maybe the setlocale() function ?

Weedpacket

Originally posted by The Chancer
If you use the "T" portion of the date function, you get the timezone fo the machine, from which you should be able to add / subtract the correct number of seconds to get the timestamps to match...

Or, better yet, 'Z' 🙂

rubric

That would work, but I'd have to go through a million lines of code and edit anything working with a timestamp. I would rather figure out a way to make the Server think it's in Central Time (GMT -6:00), because the Jordanian server is not necessary. The important server is in Texas and other programmers will get pissed off if I start adding a bunch of code to fix a time stamp error in Jordan. Does that make sense?

Thanks for the reply though.

Rubric