Question

I’m using the unix timestamp to show when a message was posted in my project but when I came to displaying the exact time of the post I realized it was about 12 hours behind.

I’m in the UK and my server is in the US (might be the problem).

Is there a simple way of converting the unix timestamp into a readable British time?

$timestamp = time();
print date("F jS, Y", strtotime($timestamp));

Any help would be great,
Thanks!

Answer 1

At the top of your script, write:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

Or if your PHP is >= 5.2.0:

date_timezone_set('Europe/London');