Problems getting the day in PHP

[Elric99]

My server is in the US so the time is offset by -5 hours. I need to work out what day it is in the UK, but this is not accurate with the -5 hours.

Could someone please show me how to get the current day, in the UK. I've been googling for about an hour and can't seem to solve this simple problem.

[Matthew1980]

Hi there Elric99

date("Y-d-m", strtotime("- 5 hours"));//not recommeneded, as this will distort the time for everyone, unless you assign the offset to a cookie and set it dynamically ;p

Or you can set the timezone, check out php.net for time_zone
[php.net ]
[uk2.php.net ]

You get the idea there..

Cheers,
MRb

[Elric99]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I think I may have also found another way to do it:

<?php

print gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");

?>

I think gmdate converts to GMT.

[Matthew1980]

Hi there Elric99,

Off php.net

Identical to the date() function except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Nifty, not used this one before, give the current time as the 2nd parameter, and it converts it to GMT - going from the desired format stated by the first parameter.

Nice find ;)

Cheers,
MRb