Local time

[EvertonFC]

Hello

In the following:

$city["Name"] = "Wherever";
echo gmdate("H:i"); //echo the formatted date
echo " hours in the wonderful city of ".$city["Name"];

I am getting the time as an hour ahead of what i really is: if it's 2pm here, it shows 3pm.

Is there a way to resolve this. Also, if possible, I would prefer the 11pm type of clock (not 2300), with the letters am and pm after the figures.

Any assistance or links would be appreciated.

Thanks

EvertonFC

 

[sleipnir214]

EvertonFC, I don't even know you, but I can tell you that you are in either the U.K. or France.

I know this because gmdate() is providing a time only one hour off your local time. gmdate() provides times/dates in Greenwich Mean Time, and if that's only one hour off of your local time, you have to be close to Greenwich.

If you want localtime, I recommend that you use date() instead of gmdate().

If you need a reference on the format string, I recommend that you look at the PHP online manual entry for date():

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

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[EvertonFC]

Hello Sleipnir

Thanks for your message.

This is what I have now:

$city["Name"] = "Wherever";
echo date("H:i");
echo " hours in the wonderful city of ".$city["Name"];

but I am still getting an hour ahead.

Yes, I am in the UK. I think Europe is an hour ahead (and more the further east you go), so France/Germany, etc will be an hour ahead of GMT.

But how do I get my clock to show the time in the UK? I have removed the gm as you suggested.

Thanks.

EvertonFC

 

[sleipnir214]

PHP gets its time from the server's clock.

At a start, I would make sure that the time and timezone settings on the server are right. I don't know when your part of Europe goes on and off daylight savings time, but you might check those settings, too.



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