Baba told me about his time zone class in pear just recently. http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=57
-----Original Message----- From: John Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 24, 2002 4:45 PM To: Miguel Cruz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] adjusting time() to correct for time zones --- Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2002, John Hughes wrote: > > My server is located on the East Coast, but all of the users of > my > > site live on the West Coast. I have an application that makes > several > > calls to time() and as a result all of the times displayed are > East > > Coast. > > > > Rather than changing every time() to time()-10800, I was > wondering if > > there is a way to make one global change, perhaps with .htacess. > > Since this site is hosted on a commercial service I do not have > > access to the PHP.ini or other server-level files. > > How about writing a wrapper function called l_time() that does the > calculation for you? Stick it in an include file, do a little > searchin'-and-replacin', and you're set. One day when you get > ambitious > you can enhance the l_time() function to look for a cookie that > identifies > the current user's time zone and calculates accordingly. > > miguel Creating my own l_time() function would work, but it would require that every installed app on the this site be customized. Since the site makes extensive use of OpenSource projects, every time an app is upgraded it would need to be re-hacked. If there is no other choice, there is no other choice. But in a perfect world, there would be a way to locally correct the server time on a global basis and thus correct ALL applications -- present and future -- that need to know the "local" time. John Hughes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- 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
