[RESOLVED] Date and time help...

Wladimir90

Ok, I use this simple code for my date and time at my website:

<?php echo date('j. F Y. - H:i'); ?>

And site shows time of a server (my server is in America and I'm in Serbia)... Well, I'd like to fix it somehow to show my time GMT +1...

Is this possible, well, probably is :-D

Thanks for reading,
Vladimir

NogDog

$tz = 'Europe/Belgrade';
if(function_exists('date_default_timezone_set'))
{
   date_default_timezone_set($tz);
}
elseif(!empty($_ENV['TZ']))
{
   putenv('TZ', $tz);
}
else
{
   ini_set('date.timezone', $tz);
}

List of recognized European times zones

Wladimir90

I tried but it doesn't work. It just show me blank space...

Do I need to convert these two commands? and how can I set

j. F Y. - H:i

in your script...?

NogDog

You still need to do your echo command with the date() function. The code I provided needs to be done before that to set the script to the desired time zone.

Wladimir90

so I put first my echo function and than your script, like this...
Sorry because of this, but I'm still new into PHP 🙂

<?php echo date('j. F Y. - H:i');
$tz = 'Europe/Belgrade';
if(function_exists('date_default_timezone_set'))
{
   date_default_timezone_set($tz);
}
elseif(!empty($_ENV['TZ']))
{
   putenv('TZ', $tz);
}
else
{
   ini_set('date.timezone', $tz);
} ?>

bradgrafelman

Wladimir90 wrote:
I put first my echo function and than your script

Then that's your problem - re-read NogDog's last post. Or, look at your script and think through it logically: you're echo'ing a date/time, and then changing the timezone...

Wladimir90

Ok, tried this script

<?php 
$tz = 'Europe/Belgrade';
if(function_exists('date_default_timezone_set'))
{
   date_default_timezone_set($tz);
}
elseif(!empty($_ENV['TZ']))
{
   putenv('TZ', $tz);
}
else
{
   ini_set('date.timezone', $tz);
} 

echo date('j. F Y. - H:i');
?>

Doesn't work, what is wrong now. 😐

NogDog

I copied and pasted your code, ran it on my PC, and got the correct output of "8. December 2007. - 18:54". All I can suggest is to make sure you're seeing all error messages in case there's some problem that PHP may be trying to tell you:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

$tz = 'Europe/Belgrade';
if(function_exists('date_default_timezone_set'))
{
   date_default_timezone_set($tz);
}
elseif(!empty($_ENV['TZ']))
{
   putenv('TZ', $tz);
}
else
{
   ini_set('date.timezone', $tz);
}

echo date('j. F Y. - H:i');
?>

Wladimir90

Doesn't work, still showing server time 🙁
And that error code worked, but not on date() function, it showed me error on other function, so that nothing is wrong with script, beside not showing the right time 😛

NogDog

Well, there's always the "brute force" solution of just adjusting the time by the necessary number of hours. E.g.: since it looks like you are GMT+1:

echo gmdate('j. F Y. - H:i', time() + (60 *60));  // add 1 hour (3600 seconds)

However, if your locale uses daylight savings time during part of the year, then this will not adjust for it.

As another thought, it might be interesting to see what environment variables are set on your server, in case there's an obvious timezone setting:

printf("<pre>%s</pre>\n", print_r($_ENV, 1));

Wladimir90

Thank you so much!!!!! IT WORKS!!!!!! YEAH! I'm so happy now... Finally... This forum is great... Thank you one more time, if you need any help (and I can assist you, just aks)... 😃 😃

bradgrafelman

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