PHP Date Help

Hey,

I have a Joomla project I'm working on and call the function "date" to get the current hour and minute. BUT, when I call the same function in the main directory of the project, the date is 8 hours off. Same function. Same call. Whats happening?

I was thinking one may be the Joomla date, the other the server date but thats not it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

 

Is the server placed in another country? If not, you can try to use

echo date_format($date, 'H:i:s');

Code (markup):

 

I'll try this and let you know if it works. Thanks,

 

i think the server in the different time zone

 

Hi I agree with SURYAWL.

That's also one of possibility to show diff time.

 

you might have to get the country and add or subtract the hours in the date code ..after you out out the hours, minutes seconds. break each down into $hour $minute etc

ad do a standard +/- math on it to update it to your timestamp/date
probablyhave to use an if or else statement to get the country and time and conversion

exampl:
if($position = "California" {
$time_update = $time_hour - 3;
}
elseif($position = "Iraq" {
$time_update = $time_hour + 8;
etc

Somebody has probably written a code for this by now as this would be a common problem encountered by International sites

 

It sounds like either a php.ini / environment override exists in one place and not in another -or- Joomla has date_default_timezone_set() set.

-Bing

 

simply define date function

date(d/m/y)