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
sour
> -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
> > =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 i
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 th
> -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
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
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 stam
"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 diff
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 pre
"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":
pira
Hi,
Monday, December 9, 2002, 11:59:07 AM, you wrote:
JF> Hi,
JF> I'm running the following code on two servers:
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
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
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"
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 probl
Daylight Savings Time?
---John W. Holmes...
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> -Original Message-
> From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 8:59 PM
> To: php
> Subject: [PHP] da
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