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Adjusting the server's time zone - PHP Tutorial
From the course: PHP for Web Designers
Adjusting the server's time zone
We've already met the PHP date function, which can be used to get different date and time paths. It's just one of an extensive range of date and time related functions. They all depend on the time set on your web server. And for them to work correctly, the PHP engine needs to know which time zone it's using. You can also change the time zone. There are two reasons you might want to do so. The first is if you have a situation like this page here. A whole series of ugly messages saying that it's not safe to rely on the system's time zone settings. The time zone needs to be set either in the PHP configuration, or by using a special function. And if we look at the time down here at the bottom, it says the local time is now 23:19 on Tuesday. Well I often do work late, but it's not actually as late as that. What has happened is that PHP has selected the time zone as being UTC, universal coordinated time, which is the same as GMT. Actually, although I come from London I'm currently in…
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How PHP makes decisions3m 30s
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Changing output depending on the current time9m 1s
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Adjusting the server's time zone8m 57s
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Displaying an up-to-date copyright notice6m 18s
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Challenge: Displaying an image of the month2m 15s
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Solution: Displaying an image of the month5m 12s
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Understanding what PHP treats as true and false2m 57s
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