On Tue, April 10, 2007 11:38 am, Satyam wrote:
> In PHP dates are stored as seconds from an arbitrary zero set at Jan
> 1st,
> 1970, so does MySql with date/time values though it shows them
> formatted but
nitpick:
I don't think MySQL uses Unix timestamp internally, as it's quite
capable of storin
On Tue, April 10, 2007 11:49 am, Satyam wrote:
> You are totally right, I am sorry. I would hate to miss my plane or
> train
> due to such mistake.
Can somebody with way more karma than me put in an RFC to just NUKE
daylight savings?
Pretty please?
Thanks!
Whatever alleged benefits there are,
You are totally right, I am sorry. I would hate to miss my plane or train
due to such mistake.
Satyam
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Dates and different time zones
Satyam
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From: "Niklas Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [PHP] Dates and different time zones
Thanks for good answers.
Okay, so I should set the default time zone to central GMT time, and then
save GMT
Satyam wrote:
Of cause the major fault with this is that it can only display the
CURRENT time offset. You *ALSO* need the users Daylight Saving Zone as
well. This has been giving us great fun since the winter dates and
times need a different offset to the summer ones. Something that
simplisti
Niklas Karlsson wrote:
Okay, so I should set the default time zone to central GMT time, and then
save GMT offset for every user. This sounds realistic, because I don't think
that I need to correct the time for users that doesn't login.
So, if I now have the GMT offset for every user, how do I d
Thanks for good answers.
Okay, so I should set the default time zone to central GMT time, and then
save GMT offset for every user. This sounds realistic, because I don't think
that I need to correct the time for users that doesn't login.
So, if I now have the GMT offset for every user, how do I di
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From: "Lester Caine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Dates and different time zones
Satyam wrote:
Store all of your dates as GMT. Perform all date based calculations
around GMT also, and then o
Satyam wrote:
Store all of your dates as GMT. Perform all date based calculations
around GMT also, and then offset the values for localised display only.
This way you only need to store the GMT offsets for each user, i.e.
GMT+1 or GMT-8 when it comes to displaying the dates to them. The
trick
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From: "Richard Davey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Dates and different time zones
Niklas Karlsson wrote:
I am creating an international site that is going to get used in both
American a
Niklas Karlsson wrote:
I am creating an international site that is going to get used in both
American and Europe. And I wonder how to handle the different time zones,
because I want the date and time to be correct after the place your using
the application.
I now have the date_default_timezone_
[snip]
So a wonder who to handle different time zones? Have any of your
experience
of this?
[/snip]
The server lives in one time zone and therefore cannot handle multiples
unless there is some new widget available for this. There are a couple
of methods available;
1. Use JavaScript to capture 'lo
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