Time zones are spinning my brain
| From: | Brian Dunning | Date: | Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:09:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Time zones are spinning my brain | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Help. I'm using PayPal's API to get a report of all the yesterday's transactions.
I'm in California, and I define "yesterday" as California's yesterday, midnight
to midnight.
PayPal wants the STARTDATE and ENDDATE provided in UTC/GMT. I'm building and testing my report
using this:
$start = gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.00\Z', strtotime("yesterday 00:00:00"));
$end = gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.00\Z', strtotime("yesterday 23:59:59"));
which produces:
2011-06-28T07:00:00.00Z
2011-06-29T06:59:59.00Z
I think this is right, since it's 7 hours off California time, but I just need someone to
double check my spinning head. Will this give me the PayPal transactions that arrived during
California's yesterday, or do I need to change something?