Re: Time zone in date function
| From: | Simon J Welsh | Date: | Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:57:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Time zone in date function | ||
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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
>
>
> Ron Piggott
You can set the timezone for your script using date_default_timezone_set() http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
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