GMT Date/Time Problem (Arghh)

PiercedKnob

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can help me with this as its doing mi head in. I have been trying to get the time print out correct for my local time zone and as yet i have only been able to get it 1hour behind. I have tried the following code, as per one of the PHP books i have

<?
setlocale (LC_TIME, "gbr");
echo gmdate("d.m.Y h:i a",gmdate("U"))."<br>";
echo gmstrftime("%c",gmdate("U"));
?>

which gives the following :-

04.10.2003 03:28 pm
Sat Oct 4 15:28:50 2003

The current time is 04:28 pm....

Arghhhh.

I have been following the following thread http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10239681&highlight=date+time+gmt
so if 'matt_4013' reads this, if you could please reply to this as i am not following it. Thought gmdate("U") would give me a timestamp already in GMT ? Obviously isn't doing though.

Thanks in advance for any help

Wayne

tekky

I would think you could use gmstrftmie() and setlocale() to do this.....

Daylights savings time would throw you off by an hour.... it ends soon if I remember the table I looked at the other day.... Oct 24th or something?

PiercedKnob

Hi,

Thanks for the reply but my code does use these functions. Is there no method to take into account day light savings time ? Seems a little bit poor if this isn't possible.

Cheers

Wayne

tekky

to get your timestamp try this...

$timestamp = 'insert timestamp here'; //non GMT timestamp

list($hour,$min,$second,$month,$day,$year,$dst) = explode(':', date('H:i:s:m:d:Y:I'), $timestamp);
$gmtimestamp = mktime($hour, $min, $second, $month, $day, $year, $dst); // date('I') returns 1 if a date is during DST or 0 if not, and mktime accepts a 1 or 0 after YEAR for is_DST switch

PiercedKnob

Hi,

Tried the code which didn't work. I will hopefully have time to check these switches out and get back to ya to see if i can see why.

Here is the code i tried (included my original code to check against)

<?
setlocale (LC_TIME, "gbr");
echo gmdate("d.m.Y h:i a",gmdate("U"))."<br>"; // Convert this to a text string 09.11.2003 format
echo gmstrftime("%c",gmdate("U"));

$timestamp = date("U");
list($hour,$min,$second,$month,$day,$year,$dst) = explode(':', date('H:i:sⓂd:Y:I'), $timestamp);
$gmt= mktime($hour, $min, $second, $month, $day, $year, $dst); // date('I') returns 1 if a date is during DST or 0 if not, and mktime accepts a 1 or 0 after YEAR for is_DST switch
echo "<br>".gmstrftime("%c",$gmt);
?>

Output was the same (1 hour out)

06.10.2003 04:44 pm
Mon Oct 6 16:44:21 2003
Mon Oct 6 16:44:21 2003

Cheers

Wayne