RE: [PHP] time problem

Something to do with daylight savings time maybe? > From: Lukasz Michalski > > stephan.schoell@chhos.mail.abb.com wrote: > > > Because on 1970-01-01 00:00:00 the "Unix Epoch" started. That's > the base of the > > unix-timestamp, which counts the seconds from then. With the > date function, you > > can pass a unix timestamp as second argument to be converted to > a readable date > > format. If you don't pass a second, you will get the actual > date/time (kind of > > now()). In your example you told the date() function to convert > the timestamp > > "0" to a readable date/time string. > > > > > > I know that Epoch is on 1970-01-01 00:00:00 :) > Look at my example a little bit longer - on my system epoch is > one hour later ? > In example below there is something that I don't undestand - > first it displays > 28000 seconds from unix epoch wrongly - it shows 09:00:00 instead > of 08:00:00 but > then, when I add current day,year and month it shows 08:00:00 - > hour has changed > but i don't messed with hours there..... > > I wonder when it losts this one hour ? > > greetings > > Łukasz Michalski > > > > > Hi, > > > > Can anybody could explain to me why date("Y-m-d H:i:s",0) returns > > > > 1970-01-01 01:00:00 > > > > instead of > > > > 1970-01-01 00:00:00 ? > > > > And another strange example: > > > > <? > > $date = 28800; //8 hours > > since epoch > > echo "idpv:".date("Y-m-d h:i:s",$date)."<br>"; > > //shows 1970-01-01 > > 09:00:00 ?????????????? > > $date += mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d"),date("Y")); > > echo "idv:".date("Y-m-d h:i:s",$date)."<br>"; shows > > 2000-07-04 08:00:00 > > ?>