Re: timestamp confusion

Well, what you are missing is that those are the number of seconds *on that machine* since 1970... so actually, if both of your clocks were set correctly, you should be getting the *same* number returned by time(). Hope that clears it up a little. Jeff At 03:18 PM 2/21/2002 +1100, Justin French wrote:

It doesn't seem to me like this is an issue... isn't the timestamp just the local unix time? It is on my LAN server. The issue I have is that echo date('d M Y H:m:s','1014261839'); produces 21 Feb 2002 14:02:59 on my LOCAL machine echo date('d M Y H:m:s','1014260440'); produces 20 Feb 2002 21:02:40 on my LIVE server. this is a difference of around 17 hours (i ran both scripts within 5 seconds of each other) however 1014261839 - 1014260440 = just 1399 seconds. so where am I going wrong? there's either an issue with: a) time() b) date() c) the subtraction of one timestamp from another that i'm not aware of. justin Billy S Halsey wrote: Justin, Take a look at the gettimeofday() function, which returns the timezone and daylight-savings-time values for the system. -bsh -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php