Re: gmtime?
| From: | Jens Lehmann | Date: | Mon, 27 May 2002 11:48:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: gmtime? | ||
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jens Lehmann [mailto:newsgroup@developerforum.net]
> > Sent: 24 May 2002 20:31
> >
> > time() returns the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch to
> > the current
> > local time
> >
> > gmtime() should return the number of seconds since the Unix
> > Epoch to the
> > current GM-time
> >
> > Do you understand now?
> Uh, no, actually now I'm more confused!
I can understand that you're confused. :-) Or am I?
> As I understand it, a Unix timestamp is *always* the number
> of seconds since 1-Jan-1970 GMT ("the Unix epoch"), and
> so is always a GMT time.
Imho no, because 1-Jan-1970 GMT is just the "starting point",
the result depends on which timezone your server is located in.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here!
> Any function that converts between local time and a Unix
> timestamp therefore has to take the current timezone (and
> any daylight-savings rules) into account. This is why there
> are two versions of mktime() and date(), but only one time().
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
>
Jens