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 sour

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

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 i

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 th

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

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

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 stam

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 diff

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 pre

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": pira

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> $stamp = 1039525200; JF> echo date('D, d M Y',$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 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

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"

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 probl

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

2002-12-08 Thread John W. Holmes
; Subject: [PHP] date() on two diff. servers > > Hi, > > I'm running the following code on two servers: > > $stamp = 1039525200; > echo date('D, d M Y',$stamp); > ?> > > On my local development box (Free BSD, PHP 4.1.1, on AUSTRALIAN time), t

[PHP] date() on two diff. servers

2002-12-08 Thread Justin French
Hi, I'm running the following code on two servers: On my local development box (Free BSD, PHP 4.1.1, on AUSTRALIAN time), the above echo's "Wed, 11 Dec 2002" (I consider this to be the "correct date". However on the live server (Red Hat, PHP 4.2.3, hosted in CANADA) the above code echo's "Tue,