Email form marks time at server, not my location

CCKitty

I have a simple email form on my website and it works well. It tells me the time that the message was sent, only it is using the timezone of the server, not of my location. Below is a piece of the code that pertains to the time....What do I need to change if I am -5 hours of GMT? (my server is at GMT)

if (! $_POST) {
	$_POST = "$HTTP_POST_VARS";
	}

if (! $_SERVER) {
$_SERVER = "$HTTP_SERVER_VARS";
}


$year = date("Y");
$month = date("m");
$day = date("d");
$hour = date("h");
$min = date("i");
$tod = date("a");


$ip=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

$SEND_prnt = "The message below was sent by: " . $_POST{"email"} . " from Ip address: $ip on $monthnameactual $month/$day/$year at $hour:$min $tod \n";
$SEND_prnt .= "-------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n";

Thanks for any help I can get.

Joseph07

If you're above PHP5, look at date_default_timezone_set. Else you also can look around at the date/time functions, there's example on how to get it.

CCKitty

Sorry, but I am not very fluent in php - I was not able to impliment the fix using that method. I did find another fix that works tho'.

For other readers benefit here it is.
I added a bit to the 'hour' to set the time correction.

$year = date("Y");
$month = date("m");
$day = date("d");
$hour = date("h", strtotime("-6 hours"));
$min = date("i");
$tod = date("a");

NogDog

You could try this little function that tries to be portable to any PHP version/configuration:

/**
*  Set the default timezone to be used by all date/time functions
*  Sample usage: setTimeZone("America/New_York");
*  @author Charles Reace (www.charles-reace.com)
*  @param string $tz timezone: see www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
*  @return boolean
*/
function setTimeZone($tz)
{
   if(function_exists('date_default_timezone_set'))
   {
      date_default_timezone_set($tz);
   }
   elseif(isset($_ENV['TZ']))
   {
      putenv("TZ=$tz");
   }
   else
   {
      ini_set('date.timezone', $tz); 
   }
   return true;
}

See www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php for possible values for the timezone parameter.