Well, what you are missing is that those are the number of seconds *on that machine* since 1970... so actually, if both of your clocks were set correctly, you should be getting the *same* number returned by time(). Hope that clears it up a little.
Jeff At 03:18 PM 2/21/2002 +1100, Justin French wrote: >It doesn't seem to me like this is an issue... isn't the timestamp just >the local unix time? It is on my LAN server. > >The issue I have is that > >echo date('d M Y H:m:s','1014261839'); >produces 21 Feb 2002 14:02:59 on my LOCAL machine > >echo date('d M Y H:m:s','1014260440'); >produces 20 Feb 2002 21:02:40 on my LIVE server. > >this is a difference of around 17 hours (i ran both scripts within 5 >seconds of each other) > >however 1014261839 - 1014260440 = just 1399 seconds. > > >so where am I going wrong? > >there's either an issue with: > >a) time() >b) date() >c) the subtraction of one timestamp from another > >that i'm not aware of. > > >justin > > > >Billy S Halsey wrote: > > > > Justin, > > > > Take a look at the gettimeofday() function, which returns the timezone > > and daylight-savings-time values for the system. > > > > -bsh > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php