Yes, I works on windows as well well. Was looking for india time zone found it as putenv("TZ=Asia/Calcutta");. Thanks a lot, but this function does not change the server time permanently. Any Idea about any function which does so. Thanks, Sumit On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sumit Sharma wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Whenever I am using date('r') function It shows time in GMT instead of >> local time set on my machine. Do I need to configure the time separately. >> I >> am using WAMP server locally. >> >> Thanks, >> Sumit >> >> > Not sure about windows - but > > putenv("TZ=America/Los_Angeles"); > > in your script should work (change the timezone to whatever you want > locally). > > You should be able to set the TZ variable globally in your php.ini file. >