Johannes Pretorius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have looked in the manual and seem to be missing it or not understanding
> correctly,
>
> The curtime() function resturns the current server time. my problem is the
> clients are not in the same
> country as the server, thus the time of the system is 6 hours behind. We
> want to add 6 hours to the time on capturing of the
> data, but using curtime() and adding the difference gives the wrong time
> back, must we add the amount seconds or minutes to the function
> to get the correct time ?
If you use CURTIME() function, you can convert to the seconds with TIME_TO_SEC() and
then apply arithmetic operations. Another way, use function NOW() and
DATE_ADD()/DATE_SUB() functions:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_functions.html
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