Help with UNIX time to human time

Question

I need to format a UNIX timestamp in GMT format to a local date/time. I'm using gmstrftime to do this and I can get the correct result if I use an offset. I just so happen to know what my offset is for the pacific timezone but I don't want to have to get the correct time like this. I've used date_default_timezone_set so gmstrftime is reporting the correct timezone but the time is off by like a day.

I don't get it. If gmstrftime knows what timezone I'm in, why is the time off?

Answer 1

If you have the correct timezone set (such as with date_default_timezone_set) then you only need to use date() for the formatting, no extra coding. UNIX timestamps are in GMT by definition of a UNIX timestamp -- number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT.

Answer 2

gmstrftime will always return the time as UTC, seems like you want strftime.