RE: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
-Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 December 2002 19:52 =as a Windows user I struggle to cope with some of these UNIX concepts, so I hit Google - with no joy, and ripped through the SuSE manuals (I'm a closet Linux user - will become one, just

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-11 Thread DL Neil
Mike, No complaints about explanations in PHP manual - I often say that it IS a cut-above the average. However it does NOT explain the underlying concepts of timestamps, (quite rightly) expecting that we pick up such from other/more appropriate sources. Hence my comments are refering to such

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-10 Thread DL Neil
=now let's take a look at the UNIX Epoch. Various 'quotations' have surfaced in this email, and I don't recall that it is well discussed within the PHP manual (it being a UNIX definition after all...). The epoch 'began' 1Jan1970, sure enough (exactly as quoted). HOWEVER it is defined

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread DL Neil
Justin, Jumping in late... Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) True... but I checked it anyway -- by adding just one and two hours to the stamp... which made no difference... but when I added 86400 to the stamp, it all

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread Justin French
Thanks heaps -- very reassuring :) Justin on 09/12/02 9:49 PM, DL Neil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Justin, Jumping in late... Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) True... but I checked it anyway -- by adding just one

RE: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
-Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 December 2002 10:50 [snip...] =now let's take a look at the UNIX Epoch. Various 'quotations' have surfaced in this email, and I don't recall that it is well discussed within the PHP manual (it being a UNIX

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread @ Edwin
Hello gurus, Ford, Mike [LSS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] To amplify on this: ... [/snip] Interesting comments! ...not sure if I understood everything though :( Anyway, for Justin's original problem, I think it'll be solve by simply doing two things: 1. Add GMT to the end of the string

[PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Justin French
Hi, I'm running the following code on two servers: ? $stamp = 1039525200; echo date('D, d M Y',$stamp); ? On my local development box (Free BSD, PHP 4.1.1, on AUSTRALIAN time), the above echo's Wed, 11 Dec 2002 (I consider this to be the correct date. However on the live server (Red Hat, PHP

RE: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread John W. Holmes
() on two diff. servers Hi, I'm running the following code on two servers: ? $stamp = 1039525200; echo date('D, d M Y',$stamp); ? On my local development box (Free BSD, PHP 4.1.1, on AUSTRALIAN time), the above echo's Wed, 11 Dec 2002 (I consider this to be the correct date. However

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
Hello, John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) Anyway, I live in a place where we don't practice this so I could be wrong... ...[snip]... Now, what could be causing this problem?

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
But, then again, it could be just because the other server's time is really late... (caused by old motherboard batteries, etc.) - E @ Edwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Justin French
on 09/12/02 1:30 PM, @ Edwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) True... but I checked it anyway -- by adding just one and two hours to the stamp... which made no difference... but when I added

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Monday, December 9, 2002, 11:59:07 AM, you wrote: JF Hi, JF I'm running the following code on two servers: JF ? JF $stamp = 1039525200; JF echo date('D, d M Y',$stamp); ? JF On my local development box (Free BSD, PHP 4.1.1, on AUSTRALIAN time), the JF above echo's Wed, 11 Dec 2002 (I

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
Justin French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, [/snip] Bingo! ...or, Bull's eye!, whatever :) Anyway, I think this is implied in the manual. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Also, check User Contributed Notes: piran at

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Justin French
on 09/12/02 3:06 PM, @ Edwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, [/snip] Bingo! *GULP*... so, what we're saying is, that if I intend to pass data around on multiple servers (in different timezones) using a unix timestamp for dates (which i prefer

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
Justin French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 09/12/02 3:06 PM, @ Edwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, [/snip] Bingo! *GULP*... so, what we're saying is, that if I intend to pass data around on multiple servers (in different timezones)