displaying local time using PHP

[ShaunH]

Hi All,

I'm sure there is a quick answer to this one:

I have a copper plan linux hosting account. I'm interested in displaying the date-time on my html pages using PHP.

No problem there, but I'm getting the gmt time when I need the local time. At the moment, the displayed time is one hour ahead (at 11:07 bst it is showing 10:07)

any ideas on how to do this?
I did some reading on the PHP help pages and am using the following code (which doesn't work unfortunately)

PHP Code:

<?php
     setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_UK');
    $today = strftime("%B %d %G %R");
    echo "$today<br><br>";


?>

Any ideas on this one?

Thanks in advance,

ShaunH

[esnail]

this page might be what you're looking for LINK - it involves specifying the time in relation to GMT by x number of hours. You could also just call the user's local system time too I think.

[DPS Computing]

True you can call the users local time but you can also just add 1 to the hour variable .

[ShaunH]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

True you can call the users local time but you can also just add 1 to the hour variable .

Thanks both for your quick replies.

I did think that I could apply the 1 hour displacement, but can't this be done automatically?

I'm bound to forget this when it needs to be done at some point. I sort of assumed that this capability would be built into the Server/PHP...


Regards,

ShaunH

[DPS Computing]

I'm sure it is, I just don't know what it is off hand.

However I have remembered that some programming languages have (at least in past versions I have used) not allowed for DST.

If you want it automatically I suppose you could set the series of dates that is DST and add the hour and then set a series of date it is normal GMT. This would involve some kind of If statement but would be harder to implement.

I will keep a look out for some more information on it for you.

Hope that helps .

[ShaunH]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

I'm sure it is, I just don't know what it is off hand.

If you want it automatically I suppose you could set the series of dates that is DST and add the hour and then set a series of date it is normal GMT. This would involve some kind of If statement but would be harder to implement.

I will keep a look out for some more information on it for you.

Hope that helps .

Thanks, for the moment I've used the following to do a quick fix , and will try to do some research (google ) myself to find out if I can automate the process at a later point

PHP Code:

    setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_UK');
       $currentDateTime=strtotime("+ 1 hour"); // add 1 hour for BST
       $today = strftime("%B %d %G %R",$currentDateTime);
    echo "$today<br><br>"; 


Thanks for your help,

Best wishes,

ShaunH

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by ShaunH

Thanks, for the moment I've used the following to do a quick fix , and will try to do some research (google ) myself to find out if I can automate the process at a later point

PHP Code:

    setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_UK');
       $currentDateTime=strtotime("+ 1 hour"); // add 1 hour for BST
       $today = strftime("%B %d %G %R",$currentDateTime);
    echo "$today<br><br>"; 


Thanks for your help,

Best wishes,

ShaunH

No problem, any time .