[RESOLVED] Dates automatically changing with daylight saving time ? ?

joad

Through some work and researching, I've made the code below, but it doesn't automatically change for daylight saving ? Also, does anyone know of a way to get the seconds to be changing while on the page please ? (Dynamic ?)

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
#echo date("l, \\t\h\e jS of F, Y, H:i:s a");
echo date("l, \\t\h\e jS \of F, Y, H:i:s a");
?>

Any help appreciated.

Joad.

Installer

GMT doesn't have daylight saving time.

To have a clock that changes on the displayed page you'd need to use a client-side script. A google search for 'javascript clock' will turn up lots of them.

joad

Many thanks for the input, it's appreciated.

Wasn't sure how to word it, but wanted the code to automatically change when the daylight savings came into effect.

It also needs to be able to do for two countries on the same page.

Did try googling it, but nothing came up, within the first 300 pages for what I wanted ;-(

Joad.

Installer

There's a script here that seems to do what you want for displaying the time on the client side.

As for showing the server side time that keeps up with dst, this should work (PHP >= 5.2.0):

$dt_sydney = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Australia/Sydney'));
$dt_oslo = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Europe/Oslo'));

echo $dt_sydney->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . '<br />';
echo $dt_oslo->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . '<br />';

Weedpacket

Incidentally, the name "GMT" has been deprecated in favour of "UTC".

Installer

That's true. It's kind of funny, though, to read that and then scroll down the page to see "All times are GMT...". 🙂

joad

Many thanks for the useful help on this thread - finally got round to setting it all up and it all works fine.

Much appreciated.

Joad.