They're both in the same timezone and are giving a difference of about 3613
seconds in their timestamps (which timezones/DST shouldn't change), so it looks
like the server's time is off. If you have SSH access, does running date give
you the correct time?
On 20/10/2010, at 5:42 PM, Super Steve wrote:
> I host a website on iServe that uses date() and time() to do some date
> arithmetic and I found I was getting different results on my local
> machine (Windows XP running Apache and PHP 5.2.10) and the iServe
> server (PHP 5.2.9).
>
> To try to do some trouble shooting I wrote a little script that
> outputs some values and I found that the iServe server seems to be
> running an hour slow.
>
> Here's my script:
>
> <?php
> echo "<p>" . time() . "</p>";
> echo "<p>" . date("d F Y H:i:s") . "</p>";
> echo "<p>" . date("c") . "</p>";
> echo "<p>" . date("r") . "</p>";
> echo "<p>" . date("I O T Z") . "</p>";
> ?>
>
> Running this on my local machine, at 5:30PM on October 20th I get the
> following results:
>
> 1287549026
> 20 October 2010 17:30:26
> 2010-10-20T17:30:26+13:00
> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:30:26 +1300
> 1 +1300 NZDT 46800
>
> Running on the iServe server that hosts my website I get the following
> results:
>
> 1287545413
> 20 October 2010 16:30:13
> 2010-10-20T16:30:13+13:00
> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:30:13 +1300
> 1 +1300 NZDT 46800
>
> There may have been just a few seconds difference between when I ran
> the script on each machine, and of course I expect the time to be out
> by several seconds.
>
> But if I'm reading this correctly, iServe is reporting that the
> current time is 4:30pm when it's really 5:30pm.
>
> Am I understanding this correctly (in which case I should notify
> iServe) or do I not understand the subtleties of PHP's date() and
> time() and daylight savings?
>
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