Re: date(), time() different to system time

Hey Anth, > Hey guys, =some of the better-looking amongst us are not guys (and then some of us are...) > I'm running a RH7.2 box with apache 1.3.20 installed and php-4.1.1 > installed as a DSO. > > Everything is working fine, except that the output from any date() or > time() references is 16 hours behind the system time (and hwtime) on the > machine. > > The machine gets its time from an ntp server which is correct; this setup > is similar for other boxes on the network which have no problems with the > date or time in php being correct. > > If I output date('T') then the correct timezone (EST...I'm in Aus) is > displayed, but any time or dates are 16 hours behind. > > Where does php read the time/date values from? Is there something I can > tweak or something that I should look at to correct this? I know I could > kludge around it in users php code by tacking an extra 16 hours onto each > value but obviously that's not a good solution for a box which will be > used by others! > > Any thoughts / headsup would be appreciated. Check out the meaning of "EST". Sixteen hours behind NSW, Australian time would make it New York time wouldn't it? Rather than the three-character codes, check out the +or-nnnn settings in the date functions to check that you and your server are in the same time zone. =dn