RE: [PHP] gmtime?

Unix epoch is the number of secs since the start date in GMT regardless of where your server is. The timestamp is a GMT value. Matt Friedman Web Applications Developer www.SpryNewMedia.com -----Original Message----- From: Jens Lehmann [mailto:newsgroup@developerforum.net] Sent: Monday May 27, 2002 7:48 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] gmtime? > > -----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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php