If you want to change the server time ocmpletely and independent of PHP, you're going to have to do it from the shell. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Sumit Sharma <sumitphp5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > >