Question

This is my current code that doesn’t seem to work correctly.


echo date("h:i", 1*60*60) ; /* 1*60*60 mean 1 hours right */


The result is 03:00 when it should be 01:00.

Where is this going wrong?

i want to do this

1- employee come in time admin select it

2- employee come – leave saved in mysql as timestamp

Now I’m trying to make admin see how many hours user late
mean

user date time default late

user1 11-09-2011 09:10 09:00 10 min

user1 12-09-2011 08:00 09:00 -60 min

Answer 1

If you output just date("Y-m-d H:i:s",0) you should see that it’s not 1970-01-01 00:00:00 as it should be. It’s because date is affected by your local timezone. For example I’m in GMT +3, and date("Y-m-d H:i:s") gives me 1970-01-01 03:00:00.

So the answer is you are not in GMT timezone (probably in GMT+2), and date is affected by it.

UPDATE

The following code outputs 1970-01-01 00:00:00, so it’s definitely time zones.

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", 0);

Hovewer, I can’t see any mention about it in PHP’s date manual.