note 105954 added to function.date

Here is a basic example that shows how to use times and dates with epoch and time zones. <?PHP echo "Current EPOCH is: ".time() .".\n"; //Changge the TZ to Los Angeles date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); echo "As you can see after the TZ change to America/Los_Angeles the EPOCH is the same which is: ".time() .".\n"; //Changge the TZ to Prauge date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Prague'); echo "As you can see after the TZ change to Europe/Prague the EPOCH is the same which is: ".time() .".\n"; //As per our last TZ change we are on Europe/Prague so if we want to get the epoch for 00:00:00 on 01-01-2012 we do: echo "The value of 00:00:00 on 01-01-2012 for Europe/Praugue is: ".mktime('00', '00', '00', '1', '1', '2012').".\n"; //To get the epoch of 00:00:00 for today in Europe/Praugue echo "The value of 00:00:00 for today in Europe/Praugue is: ".mktime('00', '00', '00', date("n"), date("j"), date("Y") ).".\n"; // We will now change the time zone to America/Loas_Angeles and do the same all over //Changge the TZ to Los Angeles date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); //As per our last TZ change we are on America/Los_Angeles so if we want to get the epoch for 00:00:00 on 01-01-2012 we do: echo "The value of 00:00:00 on 01-01-2012 for America/Los_Angeles is: ".mktime('00', '00', '00', '1', '1', '2012').".\n"; //To get the epoch of 00:00:00 for today in America/Los_Angeles echo "The value of 00:00:00 for today in America/Los_Angeles is: ".mktime('00', '00', '00', date("n"), date("j"), date("Y") ).".\n"; ?> ---- Server IP: 212.199.163.163 Probable Submitter: 213.8.118.62 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/105954 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105954 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/105954 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php