On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:41 +1300, Simon J Welsh wrote:
> On 31/01/2012, at 2:55 PM, Ron Piggott wrote:
>
>> 
>> On my clients account when I use ?echo date(?D, d M Y H:i:s');? the output 
>> is 5 hours ahead of us.  How do I change it to my local time?  Is there a 
>> way to specify ?Eastern? time zone?
>> 
>> I expect this would work:
>> 
>> echo date(?D, d M Y H:i:s' , ( strtotime( date(?D, d M Y H:i:s') ? 21600  ) 
>> ) );
>> 
>> I would prefer to specify Eastern time, so if the web host changes a server 
>> setting it will remain in Eastern time zone.  Ron
>
> You can set the timezone for your script using date_default_timezone_set() 
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

(wrap your lines, folks!)

Is there a reason _not_ to use viz:

        putenv("TZ=America/Anguilla");  
 ??

Or, is it simple "Just The Linux Way"(tm) , i.e. there's 
always more than one way to do a 'thing'?

Jonesy
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