Re: Newbie question - current date - time
| From: | Jeremy Mcentire | Date: | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:13:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Newbie question - current date - time | ||
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On Nov 14, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Jürgen Wind wrote:
better use Date() in js ... tedd-2 wrote:I don't know that that's better. Then, suddenly, on an otherwise simple website, you're requiring a user enable javaScript just to get a date. And it depends upon what the date is for. $comment = db_query("SELECTCurrent date/time for whom? For your server, use php's date(). For the user, use javascript's date(). It's so cool to be multilingual. :-) Cheers, tedd
comment, date FROM blog WHERE 1;");
$days = floor((time() - strtotime($comment->date)) / (60 * 60 * 24));
echo "This comment was written {$days} days ago.";
This wouldn't work as expected with js's Date() across time zones.
As far as newbie questions -- I don't consider myself new to PHP at all; yet, when dealing with time issues from all over the globe and processing overtime pay rates based upon laws local to the employee and to the business's main office, things got quite complicated. Especially considering the different computers were located in different time zones all together. It took a bit of thought and some testing since the existant code wasn't storing things in UTC, but relative to the local server.