Posted by FFMG on 05/02/07 17:27

ZeldorBlat;62659 Wrote:
> On May 2, 3:03 am, FFMG <FFMG.2py...@no-mx.httppoint.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My timezone is GMT +2
> > So when I do a
> > $date = getdate( 0 );
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > $date =
> > {
> > ['seconds'] (integer) = 0
> > ['minutes'] (integer) = 0
> > ['hours'] (integer) = 2 //<-- Hour is not 0 but +2
> > ['mday'] (integer) = 1
> > ['wday'] (integer) = 4
> > ['mon'] (integer) = 1
> > ['year'] (integer) = 1970
> > ['yday'] (integer) = 0
> > ['weekday'] (string) = "Thursday"
> > ['month'] (string) = "January"
> > ['0'] (integer) = 0
> >
> > }
> >
> > I cannot do:
> > $date = getdate( 0 - (2*3600) );
> > as negative numbers are not accepted, (on the window server).
> >
> > So how can I do getdate( 0 ) and return the value without it been
> > converted by the server TZ.
> > Using setlocal(...) is also a bit of a Hacky kind of way of doing
> > things.
> >
> > FFMG
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> Timestamps don't have a time zone -- they're always in GMT. So, when
> you say a timestamp of zero, that's Jan 1, 1970 0:00 GMT -- which,
> because your GMT offset is +2, is really Jan 1, 1970 02:00 in your
> timezone.
>
> What is it that you're trying to accomplish? Do you want the
> timestamp for midnight on Jan 1, 1970 in /your/ timezone? Try this:
>
> strtotime('Jan 1 2007');

My server is in the US with GMT+5 and I am working in GMT-2.
One is a *nix machine, the other a Windows.

I use a value of 0, (1/1/1970), to show that the date has not been
set.
The Unix Value is saved on the DB.
So when I do if( $date == 0) then ... I know that the date has not been
set.

mktime(...) as a GMT function but
getdate(...) does not.

And in my case I often use the two to set date ranges, (so if a user
registered on 1/1/1987 @ 12:33:20 I want to set the date on the DB as
1/1/1987 @ 00:00:00).

But because getdate(...) converts the dates sometimes it does not work
as expected.
For 1/1/1970 The date becomes 1/1/1969 19:00, (it works on the Unix
Box).
If the user registers between 0:00 and 05:00 they get access for the
day, (and sometimes the month before), because they pay by the day, I
don't want to cheat them.

So what I want is when I use getdate(0) I will get just that, the
1/1/1970 0:00:00, without having to worry about TZ.

At the end of the day I want to be assured that the date I passed to
getdate(...) is exactly the value that I passed, not a 'adjusted'
server time.

I hope I am making it a little clearer what I am using the dates for.

FFMG


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