note 109595 added to function.date

If you want to find your server's timezone offset from GMT, it seems as though you could just do: date('Z') to get the number of seconds offset. But PHP requires that you call date_default_timezone_set(). So if you have to hard-code a timezone, why not simply hard-code a variable that tells you the offset from GMT? If you set the timezone to GMT, the dates in your database will still be in local time, but time('Z') will return zero. To keep your code portable across servers in different timezones, you can do this: date_default_timezone_set(date_default_timezone_get()) This keeps PHP from complaining that you haven't called date_default_timezone_set(), but makes your code portable. Ridiculous. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 76.87.49.18 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109595 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109595 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109595 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php