Re: date() on two diff. servers

"Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> wrote: > on 09/12/02 3:06 PM, @ Edwin (copperwalls@hotmail.com) wrote: > > > [snip] > >> Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, > > [/snip] > > > > Bingo! > > *GULP*... so, what we're saying is, that if I intend to pass data around on > multiple servers (in different timezones) using a unix timestamp for dates > (which i prefer to do), I should be using gmdate() and gmmktime() rather > than date() and strtotime()? I'm afraid so... > That will sure as hell be a few lines of code to dig through!!!! Well... just hope that others chime in and suggest a better solution :) > I'll also need an accurate (and daylight savings compliant!) way of > determining the how far ahead of the GMT the server currently is, or for a > specific timezone for a specific project (eg this current one, which is > basing it's dates on Sydney, Australia. If I understand the problem correctly and if my understanding of the functions are correct, I'm not sure if you'd really need something like this. Consider this: <?php $timestamp_local = time(); $timestamp_gmt = gmmktime(); $run_local = date("F j, Y, G:i:s", $timestamp_local); $run_gmt = gmdate("F j, Y, G:i:s", $timestamp_gmt); echo "Local Timestamp: $timestamp_local<br />"; echo "GMT Timestamp: $timestamp_gmt<br /><br />"; echo "This script was run on: <br />"; echo "$run_local (DATE with Local Timestamp)<br />"; echo "$run_gmt (GMDATE with GMT Timestamp)<br />"; ?> As you can see, although the timestamps are different, they produce the same results. So, *I think*, using gmdate() and gmmktime() would be enough. (Or, if you insist on using strtotime(), consider the example(s) in the "User Contributed Notes" I mentioned earlier.) I hope this give you some hints. - E