Date function going screwy on me

[bunner_bob]

This little combo was giving me Sunday, April 30 on my local server and Thursday, April 1 on my remote host, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I could swear it used to work...

$today = gmmktime(0,0,0,date('m,d,Y',gmmktime()));
echo gmdate('l, F j', $today);

(The first function gives me a "midnight" time stamp, so all dates put into the db, and compared to it, are consistent).

When I rewrote it thus, it worked fine on both hosts:

$m = date('m',gmmktime());
$d = date('d',gmmktime());
$y = date('Y',gmmktime());
$today = gmmktime(0,0,0,$m,$d,$y);

Any idea what the heck is going on?

• Bob

[Installer]

I haven't fully deciphered your first line of code, but it looks redundant to me. It should be giving you a "notice" message, anyway.

Using midnight can lead to other problems down the road, and may well be a source of your current problem. I suggest using a time (arbitrary) closer to the middle of the day, like noon.

This code should give you what you're after:

echo gmstrftime('%A, %B %d', strtotime('12:00'));