Justin,
Take a look at the gettimeofday() function, which returns the timezone
and daylight-savings-time values for the system.
-bsh
Justin French wrote:
>hi,
>
>when people add something to a table, i'm logging the time()... later,
>when I pull it out, i'm doing something like date('d M Y',$stamp), which
>all works fine, printing something like "21 Jan 2002".
>
>problem is, i'm on a server in canada, but 99% of my users will be in Australia.
>
>to get an idea of the time difference, I made a simple php file called
>time on both my local test server and the live server:
>
><?
>
>$stamp = time();
>echo $stamp."<BR>";
>echo date('d M Y H:m:s', $stamp);
>
>?>
>
>I ran both scripts within 5 seconds of each other, and got the following:
>
>local:
>1014261839
>21 Feb 2002 14:02:59
>
>live:
>1014260440
>20 Feb 2002 21:02:40
>
>
>So, if I look at the second line of the output, they're about 17 hours
>behind me, but if I look at the first line [time()] (according to the
>manual, the number of seconds since that date in 1970 i think), I get a
>way different result:
>
>1014261839 - 1014260440 = 1399 seconds difference, about 23 minutes.
>
>
>I want to be able to determine the $difference between the two stamps in
>seconds, then do something like:
><?
>echo date('d M Y',$stamp - $difference);
>?>
>
>
>Seems easy enough, but 1399 doesn't seem right to me!!!!!
>
>Where have I lost the plot???
>
>
>Justin French
>http://indent.com.au
>http://soundpimps.com
>
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