asked on 12/26/2015

How to make PHP use my system time

Hi,

Is it possible to to make PHP use server date and time instead of the timezone mentioned in php.ini file, i.e. if I change my server's date and time it should automatically use the same date and time.

Thanks in advance.

PHP Apache Web Server

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skullnobrains

1/1/2016

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Ray Paseur

12/26/2015

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Ray Paseur

12/26/2015

Looking a bit more for ways to ask the server for its current date/time, you might be able to use exec() and run the date command. Full disclosure: I have never tested this, nor even thought about it very much!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18458839/how-to-get-the-current-date-and-time-in-the-terminal-and-set-a-custom-command-in

Dave Baldwin

12/26/2015

Windows servers use 'local time' but Linux servers do not use local time, their clocks are almost always set to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) or Europe/London which is essentially the same thing. Software running on Linux is expected to set their timezone to get the correct local time.

skullnobrains

1/1/2016

you can read the system's timesone from /etc/timezone or possibly $ENV['TZ'] and then use what ray posted or possibly ini_set the timezone or use the default_timezone_set() function so the regular date commands will behave like you want.