Question

I am using the following code to get current IST time. But it only gives the system time. I changed my system time due to some reason. So i get only system time instead of current time.

$time_now=mktime(date('h')+5,date('i')+30,date('s'));
$date = date('d-m-Y H:i', $time_now);
echo $date;

Answer 1

Set your system time correctly, so your system knows its correct timezone and the correct time there. In PHP, set your desired timezone, then just print the date:

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
echo date('d-m-Y H:i');

Don’t do manual offset calculations unless you know exactly what you’re doing, it’s way too fickle.