Question

I searched now for many hours, it seem’s like nobody got that problem before.

I run a script, which writes the current timestamp into a database, on two servers. Both have the same os, software, … and the same timezone.

Now I found out, that the diff between some timestamps and the current time() is a negative number (yes, the calculation is correct: time() - $older_timestamp)

I dumped time() on both servers, the result: it differs by exactly one hour.
Check it out:

• time() on server #1: -1 hour
• time() on server #2: correct timestamp

Since time() should be always UTC-based, I can not explain, how this happens.

Does someone have any idea?

Greetings from Aachen

Answer 1

Apparently server one and server two are set to different times. Check BIOS and your servers’ OS time.