The problem is indeed time zones, daylight savings time, etc. Unless your
two servers are in the same place you can't really make the times the same
without making them wrong in one place. The best thing I can think of to do
is specify a timezone, and daylight savings time value, that way you will
know what to expect.
You can use the function gmstrtime
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.gmstrftime.php to go from time(assumed
GMT) -> unix
Then when you want to get the time of day use gmdate(), it works like date()
but gives you the time in GMT, which is what you stored it in so you never
have to worry about the local time options.
- Dan
"tedd" <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:p06240801c39ac223ff5f@[192.168.1.103]...
Hi gang:
Using:
$unix_in = 1255845600;
echo(date("M d, Y h:i:s a",$unix_in));
On one sever, produces: Oct 18, 2009 02:00:00 am
But on another sever, produces: Oct 18, 2009 12:00:00 am
This difference appears to be a combination of "time-zone" and
"daylight-savings" considerations. In other words, the function date()
looks at the server's time (whatever that is set for, right or wrong) and
uses that for the calculation.
So, what's the best method in keeping things consistent across servers? Is
there one?
Cheers,
tedd
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