On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:41 +1300, Simon J Welsh wrote: > 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 > > You can set the timezone for your script using date_default_timezone_set() http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php (wrap your lines, folks!) Is there a reason _not_ to use viz: putenv("TZ=America/Anguilla"); ?? Or, is it simple "Just The Linux Way"(tm) , i.e. there's always more than one way to do a 'thing'? Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux 38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2 * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
