Donot getting correct date/time

Question

Hi

I have php page in a server, located in US.

the code in the page is

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

When i take this page, it give a time //eg 2010-10-26 10:20:07

But when i refresh the page on very next second, it gives same date with different time (a huge difference )

//eg 2010-10-26 08:25:58

Can any one tell the reason for that?

Answer 1

If you are on shared hosting someone might be changing the server locale or server timezone. Actually, two people might be changing it which causes it to jump back and forth each page refresh as one scripts sets it to one thing while another sets it to another thing.