[RESOLVED] DateTime playing up

davidmorley

I have :

$dt = new DateTime();
echo $dt->format('l, d M Y H:i:s');

and it gives a time eight hours before my local time.

So I tried :

$tz = 'Europe/London';
$dt = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone($tz));
echo $dt->format('l, d M Y H:i:s');

with the same result.

I checked Date and Time in control panel and this is showing the correct local time.

What have I messed up with, please ?

NogDog

You might want to make sure your PHP config is the right timezone (e.g. in the php.ini file). For a quick test to see if that's the issue, you can set it in a script before calling any date/time functions:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

Weedpacket

You could also see if asking the DateTime object for the timezone it's using ('[font=monospace]e[/font]') provides any clues.

davidmorley

OK Your idea fixed it

In ..\wampstack...\php\ php.ini-development I found :

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone =

I changed this to

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = Europe/London

The datetime function then gives the correct time.

So, Thank you.