note 85509 added to function.date

I had a question come to my inbox today from a newer developer. He asked me why his conversion from the Unix Epoch to a date format wasn't working correctly. Here is the answer: The Unix Epoch date is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT The date function goes off the server time zone. Heres a simple function to help function epoch2date($format, $epoch){ // Function by Jonathan Newcomb (jonathancnewcomb@msn.com) $gmt = substr(date('O'), 0, 3); $ret = date($format, mktime($gmt, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1970)); return $ret; } ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 76.185.36.48 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85509 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85509 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85509 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php