GMT

Hi,

My hosting provider is located somewhere in Houston, TX (EV1). I am using PHP and MySQL and need to store all dates/time in GMT (considering DST also). Appreciate any help!

Once the date/time is in GMT, it would be easier for me to display the date base on user preference (time zone difference).

Thanks.


Hassan

As far as I know time() function returns the Unix timestamp which is GMT
measured; althought date() function does the GMT convertion to the local
timezone. You can store the result of time and then, modify the TZ
environment var to matchs user timezone.

Manu.

"Hassan Shaikh" <hassan@syberdesk.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

My hosting provider is located somewhere in Houston, TX (EV1). I am using
PHP and MySQL and need to store all dates/time in GMT (considering DST
also). Appreciate any help!

Once the date/time is in GMT, it would be easier for me to display the date
base on user preference (time zone difference).

Thanks.


Hassan

Hello,

you can use gmdate()

http://ch2.php.net/gmdate

regards
Sascha

Hassan Shaikh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My hosting provider is located somewhere in Houston, TX (EV1). I am using PHP and MySQL and need to store all dates/time in GMT (considering DST also). Appreciate any help!
>
> Once the date/time is in GMT, it would be easier for me to display the date base on user preference (time zone difference).
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Hassan
>