Setting the right date

[Radon3k]

My server is located in Virginia but the host has set the time to GMT (which is EST +5) and it's a big annoyance to me. I can offset the time to EST, but how do I offset the date to reflect the current time? As it is now, once it hits 7:00PM EST, the date will be the next day, because it's midnight GMT. Here's what I have so far and the time part works, but the date part does not:

<?php
$hourdiff = "-5";
$timeadjust = ($hourdiff * 60 * 60);
$curtime = date("H:i:s", time() + $timeadjust);
$curdate = date("F j, Y", time()+ $timeadjust);
?>

Thanks. 🙂

[LordShryku]

You could just use [man]putenv[/man] to set the timezone at runtime...

[s_shrum]

// set and convert the offset
$offset = strtotime("-5 hours");

// generate the values for right now
$curtime = date("H:i:s", $offset);
$curdate = date("F j, Y", $offset);

[Radon3k]

That didn't work. 🙁 Any other suggestions? Thanks. 🙂

[LordShryku]

Try this:

putenv('TZ=EST');
mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970); // some people need this line
echo date("H:i:s")."\n<br />\n".date("F j, Y");