Re: Need help with time calculation for a tracking system - it DOES involve DB work :)

On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:45, Aaron Wolski wrote: > Anyway.. everything as far as entering the time values, etc is working > correctly except the calculation is NOT working as it should!!! > $timeValue = date("g:i:s", $timeDifference); > When I echo everything out to the browser this is what I get: > > The timeIn value is: 1033760057 > The timeOut value is: 1033760098 > The converted timeIn value is 3:34:17 > The converted timeOut value is 3:34:58 > The time difference between timeIn and timeOut is: 7:00:41 > > You see.. the 7 is there... which represents 7 hours and 41 seconds that > have elapsed. the 41 seconds is right.. but not the 7 hours!!! date() returns the LOCAL time/date given a GMT/UTC timestamp. The timezone where your server is located is probably 7 hours ahead of GMT/UTC. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. -- Leonard Levinson */