Question

I am currently on some shared hosting and when i use NOW() or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in my php sql queries the inserted data is 7 hours behind.

Is there something i can do in PHP to correct this?

I have tried

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Dublin');

but it didn’t seem to make a difference.

OUTPUT:

php time: 1347544854 
date: 2012-09-13 14:0054 UTC 
mysql array(3) { 
["zone"]=> string(6) "SYSTEM" 
["utcts"]=> string(19) "2012-09-13 14:00:54" 
["now"]=> string(19) "2012-09-13 07:00:54" 
}

Answer 1

When using the mysql functions, it’s going to use the timezone set in MySQL. You can change the timezone by using this in your query:

SET time_zone = 'Europe/Dublin'