RE: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
-Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 December 2002 19:52 =as a Windows user I struggle to cope with some of these UNIX concepts, so I hit Google - with no joy, and ripped through the SuSE manuals (I'm a closet Linux user - will become one, just

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-11 Thread DL Neil
Mike, No complaints about explanations in PHP manual - I often say that it IS a cut-above the average. However it does NOT explain the underlying concepts of timestamps, (quite rightly) expecting that we pick up such from other/more appropriate sources. Hence my comments are refering to such

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-10 Thread DL Neil
=now let's take a look at the UNIX Epoch. Various 'quotations' have surfaced in this email, and I don't recall that it is well discussed within the PHP manual (it being a UNIX definition after all...). The epoch 'began' 1Jan1970, sure enough (exactly as quoted). HOWEVER it is defined

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread DL Neil
Justin, Jumping in late... Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) True... but I checked it anyway -- by adding just one and two hours to the stamp... which made no difference... but when I added 86400 to the stamp, it all

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread Justin French
Thanks heaps -- very reassuring :) Justin on 09/12/02 9:49 PM, DL Neil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Justin, Jumping in late... Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) True... but I checked it anyway -- by adding just one

RE: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
-Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 December 2002 10:50 [snip...] =now let's take a look at the UNIX Epoch. Various 'quotations' have surfaced in this email, and I don't recall that it is well discussed within the PHP manual (it being a UNIX

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-09 Thread @ Edwin
Hello gurus, Ford, Mike [LSS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] To amplify on this: ... [/snip] Interesting comments! ...not sure if I understood everything though :( Anyway, for Justin's original problem, I think it'll be solve by simply doing two things: 1. Add GMT to the end of the string

RE: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread John W. Holmes
Daylight Savings Time? ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -Original Message- From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 8:59 PM To: php Subject: [PHP] date()

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
Hello, John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) Anyway, I live in a place where we don't practice this so I could be wrong... ...[snip]... Now, what could be causing this problem?

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
But, then again, it could be just because the other server's time is really late... (caused by old motherboard batteries, etc.) - E @ Edwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Justin French
on 09/12/02 1:30 PM, @ Edwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Daylight Savings Time? John, I think Daylight Saving Time creates a difference of 1 hour and not 1 day :) True... but I checked it anyway -- by adding just one and two hours to the stamp... which made no difference... but when I added

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Monday, December 9, 2002, 11:59:07 AM, you wrote: JF Hi, JF I'm running the following code on two servers: JF ? JF $stamp = 1039525200; JF echo date('D, d M Y',$stamp); ? JF On my local development box (Free BSD, PHP 4.1.1, on AUSTRALIAN time), the JF above echo's Wed, 11 Dec 2002 (I

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
Justin French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, [/snip] Bingo! ...or, Bull's eye!, whatever :) Anyway, I think this is implied in the manual. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Also, check User Contributed Notes: piran at

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Justin French
on 09/12/02 3:06 PM, @ Edwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, [/snip] Bingo! *GULP*... so, what we're saying is, that if I intend to pass data around on multiple servers (in different timezones) using a unix timestamp for dates (which i prefer

Re: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread @ Edwin
Justin French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 09/12/02 3:06 PM, @ Edwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] Perhaps strtotime() is NOT running off GMT, [/snip] Bingo! *GULP*... so, what we're saying is, that if I intend to pass data around on multiple servers (in different timezones)