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Adjust Server Time

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.

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  1. David

    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

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  2. David Walsh

    Yep, definitely use date_default_timezone_set(‘mytimezone’);

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  3. Martin

    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

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  4. Parvez

    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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