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#1 2007-04-22 18:34:20
- els
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Help with getting local time with php please
I am moving my site to another server, in the US. I’m on GMT +1. So I thought that this code
<txp:php>
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL');
$here= gmstrftime("%d %B %Y - %H:%M",time()+7200);
echo $here;
</txp:php>would display my local time (+7200 because of DST). But the time displayed is still 4 hours behind. I understand that by using +21600 I can make the time display right, but is that the only way? I can’t seem to find my way in all those php date and time functions…
Also the visitor logs are 6 hours behind. The publish date is 4 hours behind.
Last edited by els (2007-04-22 19:47:55)
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
Isn’t this what the time zone setting in Admin >Preferences does?
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#3 2007-04-22 21:28:58
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
NeilA wrote:
Isn’t this what the time zone setting in Admin >Preferences does?
Well, I’d expect that that would take care of the publish date and the logs dates (which it doesn’t, apparently). But I don’t think there is a txp tag for displaying today’s date and time, so I need the php code to do that.
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#4 2007-04-22 21:49:51
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
<txp:php>echo safe_strftime("%d %B %Y - %H:%M");</txp:php>Alex
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#5 2007-04-22 21:54:04
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
Thanks zem, but it gives me a time that is still 4 hours behind…
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#6 2007-04-22 22:07:44
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
safe_strftime() will use your Textpattern time zone setting. If it’s not using that correctly, try re-saving your prefs — that might be necessary if your server’s time zone has changed.
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#7 2007-04-22 22:13:49
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
I understand what you say, and I did re-save the prefs several times, but the only way I can get your code to output my local time (and have the publish and logs dates right) is setting the TXP preferences to GMT +5 and DST enabled. It’s not a big deal, I don’t mind solving it like this. Must be something in the server settings then?
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#8 2007-04-22 22:58:40
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
No, Textpattern should compensate for the server time zone when you use safe_strftime(). It has no effect on the built-in strftime() and similar functions.
Last edited by zem (2007-04-22 22:59:21)
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#9 2007-04-23 14:08:25
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
Very strange then, that I have to ‘upgrade’ my timezone with 4 hours… But never mind, it works this way.
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#10 2007-04-25 22:17:46
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Re: Help with getting local time with php please
This is very strange: today or yesterday apparently something happened with the server, because I lost some recent changes (a backup must have been restored), and guess what? safe_strftime works as it should :)
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