Question

When I make this conversion

$date = '09/20/2012 02:00';
echo $stamp = strtotime($date);

gives me 1348099200 but when I convert it online through a website it shows the time 2 hours earlier.

How can I add 2 hours?

Answer 1

The strtotime function is always relative to now() which is relative to a php.ini setting called timezone something (actually: date.timezone, see below for a link).

So you should say in which timezone your server (or website) is located, configure it and you should not need to add those two hours. These two hours even might change if the daylight saving changes, so do not encode it hard into your application.

• date_default_timezone_set^­Docs
• date.timezone string^­Docs

(Assumption: Greece UTC+2 right now, however it’s summer)