Correct time when living in Europe?

@pkngDec 01.2009

Hi!

I use $visitor_time = date(“H:i:s”); to get the correct time, but the time on the server is one 1 hour back. What is the best way to add one hour?

Thanks!

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@aj_nscDec 01.2009 — #$visitor_time = date("H:i:s",time()+3600)

OR, if your visitors will always be coming from the same timezone, then you can use

date_default_timezone_set(timezone_identifier)

and then just call:

date("H:i:s");

@MindzaiDec 01.2009 — #date_default_timezone_set() is my preferred solution too. If you have a user system you can also let them choose a timezone, pass it to this function and have dates displayed properly without touching the body of your code.

@pkngauthorDec 01.2009 — #Thanks!

Hmmm, but wouldn't the server time return the same time if the visitor browser request comes from the US, Australia or Europe? A little bit confused?!

@aj_nscDec 01.2009 — #Yes, exactly. I was going to say that in my first post, but I thought I'd just leave it simple.

For this you would have to detect what timezone the user is in (http://www.ipinfodb.com/index.php)

and then, I would, use a session variable to store the timezone and everytime a script is called then use

date_default_timezone_set($session_var_w_timezone_identifier)

and then you can still use the usual

date('H:i:s')

(the situation complicates itself further if you are storing timestamps in MySQL)

EDIT: ipinfodb returns an hour offset, not an identifier. So you would have to use a function to get an identifier from the offset.....OR you could set a session variable that contains the offset returned from ipinfodb and use

date('H:i:s',time()+(60*60*$session_var_w_timezone_offset));

provided you always want to display the CURRENT TIME

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