How to get date and time from server

Question

I want to retrieve date and time from server and according to it do some thing. For this I used following code:

$info = getdate(); $date = $info['mday']; $month = $info['mon']; $year = $info['year']; $hour = $info['hours']; $min = $info['minutes']; $sec = $info['seconds'];  $current_date = "$date/$month/$year == $hour:$min:$sec"; 

This code returns proper date but problem is that what I see in my cpanel(server time) is diff. than what I get from code. In cpanel time is CDT while from code it is showing UTC which I reconfirm using following code

<?php echo date("r == e"); ?> 

Why this is happening and what changes I have to do in my code so that I can get proper server time.

Answer 1

You should set the timezone to the one of the timezones you want.

// set default timezone date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago'); // CDT  $info = getdate(); $date = $info['mday']; $month = $info['mon']; $year = $info['year']; $hour = $info['hours']; $min = $info['minutes']; $sec = $info['seconds'];  $current_date = "$date/$month/$year == $hour:$min:$sec"; 

Or a much shorter version:

// set default timezone date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago'); // CDT  $current_date = date('d/m/Y == H:i:s'); 

Answer 2

Try this -

<?php date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');  $timestamp = time(); $date_time = date("d-m-Y (D) H:i:s", $timestamp); echo "Current date and local time on this server is $date_time"; ?>