I am having an issue with php date() function.
When I save the date in mysql datebase the hours shows 4 hours less than my current time.
My php code is below: $add_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
It saves the time in database as
2011-08-03 07:51:26
But is should show
2011-08-03 13:22:26
Can anybody tell me how to fix it
Thanks
You have to set a valid time zone - it seems you don't have an appropriate time zone set up in php environment for your location.
Check out
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
It should give you a clue how to set up the correct time zone in php.
@Mujahid If the printed time and the saved time are the same it probably means your server is not in the same timezone as you. With that said, you have to manually set the default timezone for your PHP script at the top of the file, or get the DateTime by defining your timezone explicitly. Here's the code:
$dateTime = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'));
$add_date = $dateTime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
echo $add_date;
Here's a list of time zones that PHP supports, just find yours and replace America/Los_Angeles with it.
http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
Here's a good tutorial on PHP DateTime and DateTimeZone...
http://ditio.net/2008/06/03/php-datetime-and-datetimezone-tutorial/
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Make the time zone setting of the MySQL server and the web server the same.
this will add hosted server time not local time
$add_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
use strtotime() to add hours and minutes
$newdate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime('+ 5 hours 30 minutes'.$row['db_date']));
