PHP strftime not displaying correct output

Question

I'm probably doing something really silly here, but this isn't giving the expected output:

php > $time = "2011-05-05 20:15:29"; // Timestamp from MySQL database, in UTC.
php > date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
php > $ts = strtotime($time . " UTC");
php > strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
php > echo strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
2011-05-05 17:51:59

Year, month and day are correct, but everything (including seconds?) is off. Why?

arent you supposed to pass $ts to the strftime function call? — Sabeen Malik
– Sabeen Malik, Commented May 5, 2011 at 22:01

Kevin Peno · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-05 22:04:39Z

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Is this because you aren't passing arguement 2 to strftime?

echo strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", 1304626529 ); // 2011-05-05 20:15:29 UTC

answered May 5, 2011 at 22:04

Kevin Peno

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Thanatos Over a year ago

Like I said, I was probably doing something silly. Head was firmly planted into wall here.

Kevin Peno Over a year ago

@Thanatos, happens to all of us :)

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