PHP is displaying the wrong timezone

**cedric813** · 03-29-2008 12:21 AM

Hello everyone,

I have been through so many web sites looking for how I can output the date and time below in PST. It defaults normally to UTC time, but i want it in pacific time. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, Cedric

Here is my code. This script (when accessed), will create a file and store the persons information in the file. It is a login script to keep track of people who login to the secure area of my site. It logs the time in UTC time and I would like to log it in PST time. I'm sure it's probably very easy...I'm just not quite sure how to do it.

<?php
define("DATE_FORMAT","d-m-Y H:i:s");
define("LOG_FILE","log.php");
$logfileHeader='
<html>
<body>
<table width="1" height="15" border="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table>

<table width="1000" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="ts4">
<tr><th>Username</th><th>Date/Time (UTC)</th><th>IP Address</th><th>Hostname</th><th>Track</th></tr>'."\n";
$userIp = (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != "")) ? $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : "Unknown";
$hostName = gethostbyaddr($userIp);
$actualTime = date(DATE_FORMAT);
$username = $_REQUEST[uid];

$logEntry = " <tr><td width=150>$username</td><td width=200>$actualTime</td><td width=125>$userIp</td><td>$hostName</td><td width=125><a href=http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall.ch?domain=$userIp>$userIp</a></td></tr>\n";

if (!file_exists(LOG_FILE)) {
$logFile = fopen(LOG_FILE,"w");
fwrite($logFile, $logfileHeader);
}
else {
$logFile = fopen(LOG_FILE,"a");
}

fwrite($logFile,$logEntry);
fclose($logFile);
?>

**felgall** · 03-29-2008 02:59 AM

One way would be top add the following line to the top of all the pages.

PHP Code:


<?php  putenv("TZ=America/Los_Angeles"); ?>

If you have access to the php.ini you can do it easier by using the following in that file instead:

Code:

date.timezone = "America/Los_Angeles"

**cedric813** · 03-29-2008 11:33 AM

thank you so much for your help...this worked perfectly!!

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