Date Function Timezone Specification date("h:i A");

[stevenmw]

I'm building a script that submits the time to the databse everytime a form is submitted. Is there a way to specify one specific timezone the time each time it submits?

The format I'm using is,

PHP Code:

date("h:i A"); 


[mlseim]

Set the timezone at the top of the script, and all date/time functions
will then use that timezone anywhere else in the script.

Set timezone, and the list of timezone cities to use ...
http://php.net/manual/en/function.da...mezone-set.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

EDIT:
Also, if it were me, I would simple write the UNIX timestamp (integer) into the column.
That would allow you to later display it any way you wish, down to the seconds.

$right_now=time();

Which is at this value when I submitted this: 1296840028

Later, you redisplay it like this:

echo date("h:i A", $timestamp);


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[stevenmw]

If the variable is right_now why are you using timestamp? is that how the function is called?

[mlseim]

I just made up the variable names.

If you want to test out a snippet of code ... try this:

PHP Code:

<?php

$right_now=time();

echo "The timestamp now is: $right_now <br />";

echo "Displaying that in a readable format: ".date("h:i A", $right_now);

?>

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