Re: Re: Time zone in date function

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Jonesy <gmane@jonz.net> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:41 +1300, Simon J Welsh wrote: >> 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 >> >> You can set the timezone for your script using date_default_timezone_set() >> http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php > > (wrap your lines, folks!) > > Is there a reason _not_ to use viz: > >        putenv("TZ=America/Anguilla"); >  ?? > > Or, is it simple "Just The Linux Way"(tm) , i.e. there's > always more than one way to do a 'thing'? > > Jonesy From the PHP Manual: "every call to a date/time function will generate a E_NOTICE if the timezone isn't valid, and/or a E_WARNING message if using the system settings or the TZ environment variable." So that will generate E_WARNING messages. - Matijn