Php change date with respect to specified time.

Question

Hi all. I have this question.

I am using php, mysql and my files will be hosted on linux machine.

Is it possible to change the date on a different format. I mean the date should change if it is 5PM. That is if today is 28th august 2010, then after 5pm it should show 29th august 2010.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Sounds like you simply want to add 7 hours to current time?

$corrected=time() + 3600*7;
echo strftime("%d %B %Y", $corrected);

If you want to do this for all your code, take a look at the PHP time zone configuration and date_default_timezone_set()

If you want to set your timezone on a server-wide basis, you'll probably find plenty of answers on ServerFault.com, such as Setting time zone on Linux (ubuntu)

See also

• PHP ini date.timezone? Server or client location time zone?
• PHP, how to set timezone??
• Dealing with timezones in PHP