Sometimes the time set on your server isn’t accurate to what your local time is. If you can’t change it, you can adjust it yourself.
$today = date('Y-m-d-G');
$today = strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H", strtotime("$today -5 hour"));If your server thought it was 12 midnight, but it was really 7 pm, this will roll the $today variable back five hours to be correct.
The preferred way for PHP5 and above is to use:
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
A list of the possible values are here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
My programmer stated he cannot adjust the time in the database for we have no provision to update config files on the server and the coding is already adjusted.
any thoughts?
The hosting provider will not adjust the server time.
thanks David
You can sync the server clock with a NTP server.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16592142/retrieve-time-from-ntp-server-via-php
NTP client
https://github.com/bt51/ntp
Simple function
https://gist.github.com/hexathos/4102830
Yep, definitely use date_default_timezone_set(‘mytimezone’);
earthlink only hosts php 5.0.5 and that time zone changing function is not available… =\
date_default_timezone_set
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
thank you OP
Yes i also support to use date_default_timezone_set(‘Your Time Zone’);
If you have full control over your server then you can change php.ini to locate your timezone.
Thanks
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I used date_default_timezone_set() function and it worked for me.