ZeldorBlat;62659 Wrote:
On May 2, 3:03 am, FFMG <FFMG.2py...@no-mx.httppoint.comwrote:
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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