Thanks to everyone who sent in the info. The problem is as follows:
1.) the mktime()'s are stored as PST in the DB.
2.) we have users ALL OVER the world - is there a place to find all of the
timezones at?
--Joe
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Mark Maggelet wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:56:20 -0500, Joe Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> >I have a quick question regarding timezones ...
> >
> >On the local side a record is inserted into the DB by someone in
> >Michigan, while
> >the server rests in CA. Thus a three hour difference. The local
> >mktime() will
> >create a timestamp for say 9:00am when in reality it was entered at
> >12:00noon
> >in MI. I have 2 character timezones for all my users so it should be
> >easy to
> >convert the two.
>
> you could use gmmktime() instead and add or subtract the offset.
>
> $offsets=array("
> "PST"=>1000, // not actual values
> "EST"=>-2000,
> ");
>
> $localtime=gmmktime()+$offsets[$timezone];
>
> >putenv() won't work because of the fact that the timestamp created
> >will be
> >9:00 no matter what timezone you put it in. So what needs to be done
> >is some
> >recognition that 10800 seconds needs to be added to adjust the PST
> >timestamp
> >to an EST timestamp. Are there any functions out ther that do this?
> >
> >--Joe
> >
> >Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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