[RESOLVED] time is 1 hour behind?

[benracer]

hi,
i need help trying to get the correct time of the users country.

i have this so far but for me the timezone is 1hr behind?

i am saving it to session and then into a db.

$time = date("D dS M,Y h:i a Z");

thanks
ben

[halojoy]

first
it is not good to call a variablle for '$time', when it actually a date value
lets call it $now_date

The first parameter = format
is described well here in DATE manual [man]date[/man]

time() is a function to get now time in seconds
this we can add as a second parameter to the date function
you can adjust hours by adding or subtracting 3600 sec from time()

with +3600, my code below will produce:
Sun 07th Oct,2007 02:58 pm 7200
with +0, it will produce:
Sun 07th Oct,2007 01:58 pm 7200

<?php

$now_date = date( "D dS M,Y h:i a Z", time()+3600 );

echo $now_date;

?>

[benracer]

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

Note that this will not give you the current time in the user's country (and personally I reckon $current_time would be a better name than $time or $current_date), but the current time on the server running the script.