-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
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
=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
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
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
-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
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
Daylight Savings Time?
---John W. Holmes...
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-Original Message-
From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 8:59 PM
To: php
Subject: [PHP] date()
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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