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Posted by Tom on 01/18/05 16:23
Marcus Bointon wrote:
>
> On 18 Jan 2005, at 10:53, Tom wrote:
>
>> PST = UTC - 8, therefore if you ask for strtotime in PST it will give
>> you now + 8. This is standard in most languages, you are just
>> reading the functionality back to front.
>> ie when you say strtotome('now PST'), what you are asking for is the
>> current local time (UTC in your instance) given an input date in PST
>
>
> OK, I see some logic in that - now how to work around it?
>
>> try
>> print date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('now') -0800)."\n";
>
sorry, wrong language, you need
echo "full date PST is ", date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('now -8
hours')), "<br>";
If you define the constants in another file, then you can use them wherever
eg $PST = -8;
....
$dateString = 'now '.$PST.' hours';
echo "full date PST is ", date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($dateString)),
"<br>";
Tom
> That definitely won't work; -0800 will be interpreted as an octal
> value, but it's not a legal value. If it was interpreted as a decimal
> value, it would subtract 800 minutes, which is no use to anyone.
> Numeric offsets are supposed to work inside the strtotime string
> param, according to the docs.
>
> Much of the point of using zone names rather than fixed numeric
> offsets is that it allows for correct daylight savings calculations
> (assuming that locale data is correct on the server).
>
> Let me rephrase the question - how can I get the current time in a
> named time zone using strtotime and without using a numeric offset?
>
> Marcus
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