Code to show localtime?

zeonzz

Hi guys sorry if this question have been asked or too newbie to be answer.. but i really need help..

i know show server time is using

$today = date("H:i:s");

But i want to show localtime, for example i want to show GMT +8. I will like to know how should i code it.. i'm still new to PHP. Please help me out. Thank you.

bogu

U cant do it with php, maybe read the user IP see in witch coutry he is and see what is the GMT of that country ...

Php script is not running on visitor computer, is running on your server ...

zeonzz

Ya i know, what i want is when you select the timeZone it will show the correct time. hmmm how i gonna phase it..

ok just take it i want to know code for server time + 8 hours. So the time will be show after added the 8 hrs.

Sorry my english sux.. hope you guys understnad what i mean. Thank you

iNFERiON

What bogu said, PHP is server-sided and it can not find out what the local time of your visitor is. However, to achieve what you want, the best thing to do is have a menu/option somewhere in your script where users can set what time zone or major city they are in. (e.g. Chicago, New York, London, Amsterdam). You can put a cookie behind that script that sets the number of GMT they are in (e.g. -9, -8, +0, +1). Then use:

$localtime = date(H)+$_COOKIE['localtime'];
$showtime = date($localtime . ":M");

Installer

... i want to know code for server time + 8 hours. So the time will be show after added the 8 hrs.

$local_time = date('H:i:s', strtotime('+8 hours');

zeonzz

Installer wrote:

$local_time = date('H:i:s', strtotime('+8 hours');

this code give me error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';' in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.php on line 12

then iNFERiON what you mean by putting cookie?

All i know is the server time + 8 hours will do -.- like 12:00:00 will show as 20:00:00.

Houdini

Installer forgot the second closing parenthesis so try this

$local_time = date('H:i:s', strtotime('+8 hours'));

zeonzz

oh thanx now working