Re: GMT

["Travis Conway" <travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here has always been a problem I run into with GMT translation.  You have to 
make sure that the system you are working with is set to the correct time 
zone so that any application trying to automatically figure out the time 
have the starting point.  This is easy enough in Windows, but can mean 
making sure your /etc/localtime (See 
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/68/1.php) is correct in linux. Of 
course there are GUI tools to help with this also for those non-console 
people. Unfortunately some people rely on shared servers where you do not 
have root access to change /etc/localtime.

Therefore you must have an overloadable function to return the time in GMT. 
Where it can accept an offset or rely on the systems timezone.

To me, it seems best to just use a variable.  Print out the time, then do a 
correct offset for it.

But for something already done, see 
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.gmdate.php

Travis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruno B B Magalhães" <brunobbm@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:04 AM
Subject:  GMT


> Hi you all,
>
> How do you work with GMT time-zones? I mean, I´ve developed a support 
> system, with projects, bugs, tasks, etc... but as I user date()ç,I is 6 
> hours late from my client´s time-zone...
>
> And I would like to make it a little more dynamic than just put a variable 
> in the code and add to the hour.
>
> Regards,
> Bruno B B Magalhães
>
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