On 31/01/2012, at 2:55 PM, Ron Piggott wrote: > > On my clients account when I use “echo date(‘D, d M Y H:i:s');” the output is 5 hours ahead of us. How do I change it to my local time? Is there a way to specify “Eastern” time zone? > > I expect this would work: > > echo date(‘D, d M Y H:i:s' , ( strtotime( date(‘D, d M Y H:i:s') – 21600 ) ) ); > > I would prefer to specify Eastern time, so if the web host changes a server setting it will remain in Eastern time zone. Ron > > > Ron Piggott You can set the timezone for your script using date_default_timezone_set() http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php --- Simon Welsh Admin of http://simon.geek.nz/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php