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PHP

Posted by Darrel Lyons
Darrel Lyons
2,991 Points

Changing the date

The server time is 5 hours behind. Is there a way of adding hours?

$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

4 Answers

George Cristian Manea
George Cristian Manea
30,787 Points

strtotime() gives you a number back that represents a time in seconds. To increment it, add the corresponding number of seconds you want to add. 5 hours = 60*60*5 = 18000, so...

$nowtime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); $date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($nowtime)+5*60*60); echo $date;

Darrel Lyons
Darrel Lyons
2,991 Points

Thanks! :)

Martin Adam
Martin Adam
1,241 Points
Martin Adam
Martin Adam
1,241 Points

Hi, try to look in you Timezone setting in PHP.INI file - search for "date.timezone = "

Darrel Lyons
Darrel Lyons
2,991 Points

I don't have that file.

Martin Adam
Martin Adam
1,241 Points
Martin Adam
Martin Adam
1,241 Points

Well... maybe i just did not get the point of quiestion, but I would rather correct the server time.

Yes you have it. If you use XAMP it is c:\xamp\php\php.ini for linux it depends on distribution, but it could be something like /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Cheers, M.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Just be aware that in PHP, you can only get the server's local time. If this site is live online, you may not have access to the correct INI file to change your server's timezone, especially if you are on a shared hosting plan.

If you're using a local server, or you have a VPS or a dedicated server, you should be able to set the server's timezone.

The problem is everybody is going to get that time, regardless of their time zone. That may be what you want, or it may not be. If you need to do something with the time and you want the time to be the correct time for the user, you can use the date object in JavaScript to do the same thing.