[Resolved] Wrong timezone...changing time

[s_shrum]

I'm based in California but my webhost is in New York. When I display time values, they are based on the server time which is 3 hours ahead of me. This is fine for data input but not for dynamic page display (displays 1:30 AM when my time is 10:30 PM). Since most of my clients are local, I want the time to display MY timezone...not the webhosts.

Is there a quick and painless way to subtract time (or change the timezone)? I'd love to do something like 'date("g") - 3' but I'd have to do checks on values before 3. I'm thinking (hoping really) that I can set a timezone value in my scripts (or environment) and subtract the time from whatever PHP uses to gauge it's time values off of.

Any ideas?

TIA

Sean Shrum
http://www.shrum.net

[Skull]

I think this is what you are after, there are comment tags so everything should be easily edited..

<?php

//
// If your local time is behind the server time, then change the "+" to
// a "-" in the $date line
//

// Variable for hours

$hourdiff = "put the hours diff here"; // hours difference between server time and local time (put 0.23 for 23 minutes diff e.t.c..)

// If you don't know how many hours, then "uncomment" the three lines
// below by deleting "// " to see what the server time is (remember to
// put the comments "// " back when you've finished checking:

// $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a");
// print ("$serverdate");
// print (" &nbsp; <p>");

$timeadjust = ($hourdiff 60 60);

$date = date("l, d F Y h:i a",time() + $timeadjust);

print ("$date") ;

?>

[barand]

Simpler :-

echo date('g:i:s', strtotime(-3 hours));

hth

[s_shrum]

barand++

This works on everything; no worrys about day values as this compensates for that as well.

Thanx

In case anyone is interested: This returns an array (associative hash I think it's called in PHP for you dedicated PHPers) with date / time values that you can use to do search / replace into templates (great for timestamping page display):

function date_array($offset)
{
// set the offset
$offset = strtotime($offset);

// generate the values for time_vars for right now
$time_vars["sec"] = date("s", $offset);
$time_vars["min"] = date("i", $offset);
$time_vars["hour_24"] = date("G", $offset);
$time_vars["hour_0_24"] = date("H", $offset);
$time_vars["hour_12"] = date("g", $offset);
$time_vars["hour_0_12"] = date("h", $offset);
$time_vars["hour_24"] = date("", $offset);
$time_vars["mdayth"] = date("jS", $offset);
$time_vars["mdayth_0"] = date("d", $offset) . "<sup>" . date("S", $offset) . "</sup>";
$time_vars["mday"] = date("j", $offset);
$time_vars["mday_0"] = date("d", $offset);
$time_vars["month"] = date("F", $offset);
$time_vars["mon"] = date("M", $offset);
$time_vars["mnum_0"] = date("m", $offset);
$time_vars["mnum"] = date("n", $offset);
$time_vars["year"] = date("Y", $offset);
$time_vars["yr"] = date("y", $offset);
$time_vars["weekday"] = date("l", $offset);
$time_vars["wkday"] = date("D", $offset);
$time_vars["timezone"] = date("T", $offset);
$time_vars["daysinmonth"] = date("t", $offset);
$time_vars["epochsecs"] = date("U", $offset);
if ( date('G') >= 0 &&  date("G", $offset) < 12 ) { $time_vars["timeofday"] = "morning"; } elseif ( date("G", $offset) >= 12 &&  date("G", $offset) < 17 ) { $time_vars["timeofday"] = "afternoon"; } else { $time_vars["timeofday"] = "evening"; }
$time_vars["yday"] = date("z", $offset) + 1;
if ( date("I", $offset) == 1 ) { $time_vars["isdst"] = "Daylight Savings Time"; } else { $time_vars["isdst"] = ""; }
$time_vars["am_pm"] = strtolower( date("A", $offset) );
$time_vars["AM_PM"] = date("A", $offset);
return $time_vars;

}