Question

I want to save to database a given date with this format:

date('Y-m-d H:i:s')

Using datetime datatype, it outputs:

2012-10-29 00:18:14

To check if it gives the correct output, I add to my table a timestamp which returns the current date and time of the insertion/update, it returns:

2012-10-29 07:18:14

I suspect that there is something wrong with my format.

Answer 1

sounds like a timezone issue.

you can use date_default_timezone or the date.timezone ini setting to have PHP use the same timezone as MySQL.

you can see the MySQL timezone with:

select @@session.time_zone;