On 5/04/2011, at 3:35 AM, Ian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem using the php built in classes DateTime and DateTimeZone.
>
> The idea behind the following code is to return the timestamp for the
> current time in Singapore (or other places). What it actually returns
> is the timestamp for the local system. Other formatted dates appear to
> return correctly, which is why I am puzzled.
>
> I am using the latest php 5.3.6 compiled from source on a OpenVZ CentOS
> container. All packages are up to date.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>
> I can workaround this problem my parsing the correctly formatted date
> using strtotime() but I would like to know what's going on.
>
>
>
> This is the output of the script:
>
> Current time in Asia/Singapore is 2011-04-04 23:32:36
> Timestamp for Asia/Singapore is 1301931156
> Date created from previous timestamp is 2011-04-04 16:32:36
>
> The code is :
>
> <?php
>
> $timezone="Asia/Singapore";
>
> # Create Timezone object
> $remote_timezone = new DateTimeZone($timezone);
>
> # Create datetime object
> $remote_time = new DateTime("now" , $remote_timezone);
>
> # Print the date
> print "Current time in {$timezone} ";
> print "is {$remote_time->format("Y-m-d H:i:s")}<br/>";
>
> # Print the timestamp
> print "Timestamp for {$timezone} ";
> print "is {$remote_time->format("U")}<br />";
>
> # Get the timestamp and create a date from it
> $timestamp = (int)$remote_time->format("U");
>
> # Show the formatted date created from timestamp
> print "Date created from previous timestamp is ";
> print date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$timestamp)."<br/>";
>
> ?>
May I suggest including the timezone in your date format (O or e)? It may show the two date strings to be equivalent.
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