Don't you DST based servers + PHP sometimes

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:05 pm

It took me a lot of time for something so simple.
But somehow servers that are DST based + PHP makes it almost impossible for you.

I live in a country that is DST based: Last Sunday in March at 2am
The server is also DST based, so no problemo for me.

But now you live on hawai (NO DST) or in the States (YES/NO First Sunday in april at 2am)

in hawai all shown times in PHP are out of sync with 1 hour
in states they are out of sync for 1-2 weeks

Or viceversa: the server is in the states

If the server is GMT based then all is ok, but how much people have their server set to GMT ???

This makes you scream for fixes.
You fix 1 part and then PHP spits out that all time functions are DST based.
Now have fun building your own "time" functions that do it properly and rewrite all your code to use those Smack

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:21 am

Took me 2 days to figure everything out but my code is working now Laughing

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Well, are you gonna share or just brag ROTFL

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:26 am

Ehm this forum is named "Rants & Raves" so it's no a place to share Very Happy

Will PM it to ya Wink