Question

I think this is a stupid question, but seems that I cannot find the answer.

I have this timestamp: 1295598602.

In my php script I have:

$date = date(‘Y-m-d’, 1295598602);
$hour = date(‘H’, 1295598602) . ‘:00’;

This returns:

Date: 2011-01-21
Hour: 03:00

Now I went to an online conversion site to test this. I used this one.
But it seems that for this timestamp value it is

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:30:02 GMT

Now, which one is correct?

Answer 1

Use correct timezone:

>> date_default_timezone_get();
'UTC'
>> date('Y-m-d h:i:s',1295598602);
'2011-01-21 08:30:02'
>> date_default_timezone_set('CET');
true
>> date('Y-m-d h:i:s',1295598602);
'2011-01-21 09:30:02'
>> date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
true
>> date('Y-m-d h:i:s',1295598602);
'2011-01-21 08:30:02'