PHP: Its 20 minutes past midnight and somehow on refresh the php date doesnt change. Why is the php god angry on me?

Question

As i said before, its 20 min past midnight, and when i do check the date using php

as date("Y-m-d"); and date("Y-m-d",strtotime("now"));

i still get the previous days' date. I expected a lot of things to go wrong while coding but definitely not this. I wouldnt even have it in the list of potential-things-that-could-go-wrong. I have refereshed the browser, using SHift + refresh and have also gone to the extent of restarting the system.

What went wrong?

Answer 1

Is the timezone on the server set properly? How about the timezone for PHP?

Answer 2

Are you sure the server runs on the same time zone as you're expecting?

Try printing out the actual time as well and see if that tells you anything.

Answer 3

Are you sure that you get the correct time? I.e. print more info:

echo date("c")

This will give you everything, date, time, time zone etc.

You can set the timezone you want to use with date_default_timezone_set. You can find a list of valid timezones here.

You can also set a timezone in your php.ini config by setting the date.timezone-directive.

Answer 4

The date doesn't change on subsequent refreshes, or the date didn't change on midnight (from 2009-09-06 to 2009-09-07)?

Answer 5

yup all you folks are right.. it was a problem with the timezone. changed it by adding uncommenting the ;date.timezone property in php.ini and adding the required timezone as given in http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php. Thanks guys