I am using godaddy hosting service and I can manage local time, I have to use the server default time that is America/Phoenix.
Even if i am using date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");
function in my config file then also there is no difference in time and godaddy people are not ready to help me with, I am tired of calling this guys but no response, I hate them all.
Is there any means I can get my local time using any function or any external API?
I am using this code
//set time zone india
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
echo $date."<br>";
and the output that I am getting is
The current server timezone is: Asia/Kolkata05/14/2014 12:06:26 am
Even if it is 4:38 pm here...
date_default_timezone_set should work for PHP functions like date, however I'm going to hazard a guess that you're having problems with date/time elements in a database such as MySQL.
I know I've had similar problems before, when trying to get everything on UTC instead of Europe/London...
When you've established the connection to your database, be sure to run this query:
SET time_zone = 'Asia/Kolkata';
This, in addition to date_default_timezone_set, should solve your problems. However, if you're using DATETIME columns, then those will not be fixed. TIMESTAMP columns will be automagically fixed to the new timezone because they are saved as UTC internally and converted upon retrieval.
You shouldn't touch date_default_timezone_set. The proper way to do that would be to use DateTimeZone object. Something like this:
$now = new \DateTime('now', new \DateTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata'));
echo $now->format(\DateTime::ATOM);
So, the idea is that you create an object in a timezone of server and then convert it to your timezone
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I am trying to get the local time using php. I wrote two different versions, but they both give the wrong time
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$now = new DateTime();
echo $now->getTimestamp();
Another way
date_default_timezone_set('America/New York');
echo strtotime("now")."<br/>";;
$now = new DateTime();
echo $now->getTimestamp();
In both cases I get the time 4 fours ahead of my local time. There is any other way to get the local time?
DateTime::getTimestamp() returns unix timestamp. That number is always UTC. What you want is format the date according to your time zone.
$dt = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
echo $dt->format('m/d/Y, H:i:s');
Or use a different date format, according to what you need.
Also, you can use DateTime library for all your date needs. No need to change server's default timezone every time you want to fetch the date.
Simply use function date_default_timezone_set(). Here is example:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Dhaka");
echo date('d-m-Y h:i:s A');
?>
Hope it will help,
Thanks.
You need to use javascript because you want the value of time from the client. PHP is a server-side language that evaluates on the server and sends results to the client. So if you try to pull a date/time using a PHP function, it's going to pull the date from the server, which is not always in the client's timezone.
You can do this in a javascript function and then reference the value in the display.
var thisDateTime = new Date();
If you don't want to use timezone you can use this mix of windows and php commands:
<?php
$D = exec('date /T');
$T = exec('time /T');
$DT = strtotime(str_replace("/","-",$D." ".$T));
echo(date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$DT));
?>
I'm wondering why nobody has mentioned localtime(time()); in PHP with indexed key array result or localtime(time(), true); with associative key array result.
For the record, I found the only solution to read the real hour of the machine is to read the information outside of PHP (javascript, shell or other processes). Why?
For example, let's say we have an hour based in daily-saving. What if the timezone of the OS (Windows in my case) is not in sync with the timezone of PHP, I mean, it could be calculated differently. Or maybe the machine is using a different hour and it is ignoring the daily-saving hour.
Right now, my zone is UTC -4 Santiago 9:35 pm (with daily saving). However, PHP considers as 10:35 PM (using localtime,time,date and DateTime).
If anyone here wanted to get the local time according to the user's timezone (dynamically), then you can consider the following code:
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ipInfo = file_get_contents('http://ip-api.com/json/' . $ip);
$ipInfo = json_decode($ipInfo);
$timezone = $ipInfo->timezone ?? "UTC";
$dt = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone($timezone));
echo $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
The above code will get the user's local timezone and print the time according to that.
If you wanted to test the above code on your localhost then make sure to hard code your IP address there because the API can't provide you the timezone based on your local address (127.0.0.1), but the above code works fine on the
live server.
For Localhost, do:
$ip = '-------'; //your IP address
You can solve this problem by using localtime() function or through date_default_timezone_set() function.
Learn more about the localtime() function reffer:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.localtime.php
or
Learn more about the date_default_timezone_set() function reffer http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
i think this must help you..
My php web servers timezone is EDT (Eastern Day Light Time (US)). My current timezone is GMT+05.30. I need to enter current timestamp into my mysql database with the timestamp in my current timezone. By the way, I'm using a free php web server for my use. So I will not be having any previleges for modifying the server. Can some one suggest me some way of converting it to my GMT+05.30 from EDT in php using any script.Thanks in advance.
Have a look at the following example
$timezone = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Berlin');
$date = new DateTime('#' . $yourTimestamp, $timezone);
echo $date->format('c');
So through the DateTimeZone Object your Time will be formatted by the DateTime object.
I suggest you use the date_default_timezone PHP function.
You can read about it here and here is the list of Supported Timezones
Example:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Amsterdam');
?>
Use this:
echo gmdate("Y:F:l h:i:s",time()+19800);
I am trying to convert 1355657846 and 1355677646 unix timestamp to Y-M-D H:i:s format.
The problem is in H:i:s . It should be
11:37:24 and 17:07:26 respectively but it is showing 12:37:24 and 18:07:26.
<?php
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s','1355657846');//2012-12-16 12:37:26,must be 11:37:26
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s','1355677646');//2012-12-16 18:07:26,must be 17:07:26
?>
It should be 11:37 and 17:07 because I checked it in unix timestamp conversion
and also it is the time I had received mail in gmail account. And I got these unix timestamp from gmail( using php imap function...$overview->udate)
I am testing this on local xampp server.
Can anyone suggest me where I am going wrong here?
PS: I checked related question in stackoverflow, but here I want to convert timestamp to datetime, which I think should be constant irrespective of timezone.
It is definetily the timezone setting in your local web server.
Check the php.ini for date.timezone value.
It also may be overridden by htaccess file or you PHP script.
strtotime was included once DateTime was created. The parsing is dependant of the server default timezone.
If you want get your date with the good timezone, there are two ways :
default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');//for example
or :
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('U',$timestamp,new DateTimezone('Europe/Paris'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s);
you can find more informations here .
This is probably due to the TimeZone setting. Learn about PHP date_default_timezone_set() and make sure your local time zone matches the timezone you really want. All Unix Timestamps are the same world-wide. But the local DATETIME values vary around the globe. This article may be visible to you (hope so):
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html
Best regards, ~Ray
I am having an issue with php date() function.
When I save the date in mysql datebase the hours shows 4 hours less than my current time.
My php code is below: $add_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
It saves the time in database as
2011-08-03 07:51:26
But is should show
2011-08-03 13:22:26
Can anybody tell me how to fix it
Thanks
You have to set a valid time zone - it seems you don't have an appropriate time zone set up in php environment for your location.
Check out
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
It should give you a clue how to set up the correct time zone in php.
#Mujahid If the printed time and the saved time are the same it probably means your server is not in the same timezone as you. With that said, you have to manually set the default timezone for your PHP script at the top of the file, or get the DateTime by defining your timezone explicitly. Here's the code:
$dateTime = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'));
$add_date = $dateTime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
echo $add_date;
Here's a list of time zones that PHP supports, just find yours and replace America/Los_Angeles with it.
http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
Here's a good tutorial on PHP DateTime and DateTimeZone...
http://ditio.net/2008/06/03/php-datetime-and-datetimezone-tutorial/
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Make the time zone setting of the MySQL server and the web server the same.
this will add hosted server time not local time
$add_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
use strtotime() to add hours and minutes
$newdate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime('+ 5 hours 30 minutes'.$row['db_date']));
I was using this query to fill my values:
mysql_query("INSERT INTO 'drivers'(coupon,loyalty,etairia,package,pump,date,merchant,public,private,
amount,plate,nonce)VALUES('".$_REQUEST['coupon']."','".$_REQUEST['loyalty']
."','".$_REQUEST['etairia']."','".$_REQUEST['package']."',0,NOW(),'".$_REQUEST['m']."
','".$_REQUEST['pu']."','".$_REQUEST['pr']."','".$_REQUEST['amount']."',
'".$_REQUEST['plate']."','".$_REQUEST['nonce']."');");
This is working fine, but with NOW() I have the server hour so I want to convert it to my local hour.
I found this on another question:
$date = new DateTime();
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Athens'));
$fdate = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
I printed it and it returned the correct hour.
Finally I tried to put it inside the query instead of NOW() but when I run it it doesn't even make a row to my base.
This is my code now:
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `drivers`.`pay`(coupon,loyalty,etairia,package,pump,date,merchant,public,
private,amount,plate,nonce)VALUES('".$_REQUEST['coupon']."','"
.$_REQUEST['loyalty']."','".$_REQUEST['etairia']."','".$_REQUEST['package']
."',0,'".$fdate."','".$_REQUEST['m']."','".$_REQUEST['pu']."',
'".$_REQUEST['pr']."','".$_REQUEST['amount']."','".$_REQUEST['plate']."','"
.$_REQUEST['nonce']."');");
My php version is 5.5.9
To get local time:
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
To get global time:
echo gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s");
Or set your timezone something like this:
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Athens');
print date('Y-m-d H:i:s')."\n";
I will suggest you, do not use mysql_.It is deprecated from the latest version of PHP.Use mysqli_ instead of this.
As has already been suggested, try using "date_default_timezone_set" and "date" to get the date in your local timezone.
I would also recommend a couple of other things:
Use mysqli instead of mysql functions as mysql functions are deprecated
Escape your strings! To avoid SQL injection use mysqli_real_escape_string on anything that comes from the request
I understand that your question is "what is wrong with this mysql query ?". The problem is that you don't see which error is produced by MySQL.
This case is known for PHP as a "WSOD" or White screen of death : nothing is displayed, generally because of some error setting (php function error_reporting).
If you take a look at this page, you will find a way to declare a error handler, which is a great time saver when programming PHP. You will also read the reason of your error and you then can explain it to us all. :-)
Check out UNiX_TIME stamp. It will store as a big int . It's basically seconds count from a particular date which the clock was set . It's a good way as it gives you flexibility in retrieving in any format you want. You can convert it in client side. Hope this helps
You can use date('Y-m-d H:i:s') or gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s') to get the current date and time. You will need to make sure that your date column is set as a DATETIME type
I don't know if you still need it, but with the following code
$timezone = +1;
$date = gmdate("Y-m-j H:i:s", time() + 3600*($timezone+date("I")));
You can change the timezone as you want (for example my timezone is GMT + 1 where I am now) and with the date you also no need to worry about when daylight time changes.
For you is
$timezone = +2;