PHP - Mismatch Between Server Time And Php Time

Is there a way to run a check on the server to see how long it takes for the page to get built, then print it to the screen?   I tried searching for it online for a few minutes, but it wasn't able to be found.  All I'm finding  on there is how to optimize the pages, but I want a simple time check performed on the page loading

Is there any way to have a field that will update any time its row is updated?   My situation is that I will have multiple devices writing to a database, and in one case the time that is being kept track of is important.  And the devices writing to the database are a bit difficult to keep accurate times on, so instead of writing the time from the devices themselves, I was hoping I could just have a field update itself. I know it can be done on INSERT, but I do not want to do an INSERT every time.   Thanks!

PHP date and time function is not showing correct time on my local system

I have the following php code

date_default_timezone_set("Africa/Lagos");

$date = date('d-m-y h:i:s');

echo "Server Time ".$date ."<br>";

echo "The time is " . date("h:i:sa")."<br>";

$current_datetime = date("Y-m-d") . ' ' . date("H:i:s", STRTOTIME(date('h:i:sa')));

echo "Current time1: ".$current_datetime . "<br>";

 

Output

Server Time 21-05-21 09:55:39
The time is 09:55:39am
Current time1: 2021-05-21 09:55:39

 

Expected Output

Server Time 21-05-21 10:55:39
The time is 10:55:39am
Current time1: 2021-05-21 10:55:3

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Edited May 21 by Ponel

Hello Everyone,

I am on windows server and In my ini file server time zone declared as below

[server_settings]
date.timezone = "Europe/London"

but my application installed on another timezone eg: 'America/Los_Angeles' time zone.

using date_default_timezone_get() i am always getting Europe/London timezone as it's declared in ini file. How to get local timezone(wherever application is installed) here?

Thanks Krish

I am trying to simulate an ad expiration and carry out an action if the ad is expired. And I cannot get the if/else to work properly... I've tried many variations and I cannot see what I am doing wrong here. Any tips please 3 hours and counting of no solution!

$ad_start = time()-14 . "<br />"; // 14 days from today in the past (negative)
echo $ad_start;

$current_time = time() . "<br />"; // current epoch time
echo $current_time;

$days_past = $ad_start - $current_time; // days past

echo "<br />$days_past days have past since the ad started!<br />";

if($days_past <= 14)
{
echo "<br />Ad is less than 14 days.  Not expired.";
}
else
{
echo "<br />Ad is over 14 days. Expired.";
}

Basically I have recently been playing around with parsing a csv file. What I am looking to do at this point is simply take the date/timestamp (part of the csv file), which is in the following format:DD/MM HH:MM:SS.100th/s
For the sake of argument, lets say I have this in an array string called $csv[0] and the file has several lines that span the course of a couple hours. I wouldn't mind having to use explode() to breakup/remove the date or 100th/s IF that would make things a lot simpler.

So where would I start in trying to achieve this?. The result I am looking for will simply return "X Seconds". Storing this in a string variable would be a bonus, as I plan to use this to divide a separate piece of information.

Any examples or ideas would be great. Thank you.

ps:
Here is an example time from the csv file itself:
Code: [Select]
11/19 22:23:18.143

Hi All,

My goal is to process all redirects serverside and simply return the user to the 'final' URL.

Here's my function to get the final URL:
PHP Code:
function get_final_url($url){ 
    global $final_host; 
        $redirects = get_all_redirects($url); 
        if (count($redirects)>0){ 
          $final_url = array_pop($redirects); 
          if(substr($final_url,0,7) != 'http://' && !empty($final_host)) 
            { $final_url = 'http://'.$final_host.$final_url; } 
                return $final_url; 
        } else { 
                return $url; 
        } 

Here's the cURL execution:

$ch2 = curl_init();      
                        curl_setopt($ch2,CURLOPT_URL,$url); 
                        curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); 
                        curl_setopt($ch2,CURLOPT_POST,''); 
                        curl_setopt($ch2,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,''); 
                        curl_exec($ch2); 
                        curl_close($ch2); 

For some reason, this works no problem, posts any data over to the URLs serverside, redirects serverside, and passes the client to the final URL, with none of the redirection displayed via HTTPWatch or any similar debug utility. Sometimes, however, it does show phases of redirection.

Any insight into what I might be doing incorrectly?

Thanks SO much in advance.
E

OK So I've got a datepicker that sends a date in d/m/y format. My DB stores the data in Unix Timestamp Which I can convert the date to with strtotime however this does the exact date & time.

All I want is the actual day. I've spent hours trying to convert this with just the day with mixed results...

Thanks.

What are the differences and implications of UTC time and Zulu time?
  

<?php
function getArr(string $time):array
{
    $dateTime = new \DateTime($time);
    return [
        'time'=>$time,
        'timestamp'=> $dateTime->getTimestamp(),
        'dateTime' => $dateTime
    ];
}
$arr = getArr('2020-08-05');  
$arr_z = getArr('2020-08-05T00:00:00Z');  

print_r($arr);
print_r($arr_z);

echo('equal timestamps: '.($arr['timestamp'] === $arr['timestamp']?'true':'false'));

 

Array
(
    [time] => 2020-08-05
    [timestamp] => 1596585600
    [dateTime] => DateTime Object
        (
            [date] => 2020-08-05 00:00:00.000000
            [timezone_type] => 3
            [timezone] => UTC
        )

)
Array
(
    [time] => 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
    [timestamp] => 1596585600
    [dateTime] => DateTime Object
        (
            [date] => 2020-08-05 00:00:00.000000
            [timezone_type] => 2
            [timezone] => Z
        )

)
equal timestamps: true

 

I am having a problem with PHP displaying the correct date and time. It updates as it should, but is fast by 4min and is always displaying a date in 2004. I ran a basic php script to make sure the application im using itself is not wrong. go to lunenburgledger.com/time.php

Anybody had any ideas on where to check? The system time on the Windows Server 2003 is correct. The only thing I can think of is that it was converted to a virtual machine on vmware esxi, but the system time stayed right. Any ideas?

Thanks!

This topic has been moved to Application Design.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=316461.0

Hello,

I tried to implement some PHP code to enable a web page to show "Dinner" specials versus "Lunch" specials based on the time.

The business is located in the Eastern Time Zone, so I only need to routine to work based on Eastern Time (New York).

What I am noticing is that the server is processing the lines of code so fast that the command to establish the correct time for the remaining code is not always being acknowledged.

This line of code appears to be processing too fast for the remaining lines of code:
date_default_timezone_set ( "America/New_York" );

Is there some additional code I can put in place to make sure the correct time is always ascertained?

I need the $hourmin variable to always return a combination of hour + minute based on 24-hour time and Eastern Time zone.

My code is as follows:


 <?php
   $name8 = file_get_contents("test/special8name.txt");
date_default_timezone_set ( "America/New_York" );
$gethour = date("H");
$getminutes = $gettimedate["minutes"];
$gettimedate = date();
$hourmin = $gethour . $getminutes;
$currentday = date("l", time());
$currentdate = date("M j, Y");
if ($hourmin < 1500 && $currentday <> "Saturday" && $currentday <> "Sunday") {
   echo "<span class=\"namesred\">$name8 </span>";
}
  else if ( $hourmin > 1500 && $hourmin < 2300 && $currentday <> "Saturday" && $currentday <> "Sunday") {
   echo "<span class=\"namesblue\">$name8 </span>";
  }
  else if ( $currentday == "Saturday" or $currentday == "Sunday") {
   echo "<span class=\"namesblue\">$name8 </span>";
  }
?>

I am making a time clock, and I was wondering what is the best way to calculate the number of hours an employee worked?

I have a table called "statuses" it holds names of punch types:
- id = the auto_inc
- status = "in/out/break/lunch" text statuses
- paid = whether or not the punch is paid or not (true/false)

I have another table called "logging" This table holds the information about the punch type:
- id = the auto_inc
- owner = the member id
- ip = members ip
- inout = the punch type from the statuses table
- location = the city/state of where the punch took place
- date = the time the member punched

Maybe I am over thinking this, but what is the best way to calculate the hours a person has worked?

Right now I am getting all the punches for for a particular member between a date range. then loop through the data to display it and passing it to a method in a class called Calc. I want to then add the times from punch in to punch out, then the next punch in to punch out.

Any suggestions?

I have this:

    $sql = mysqli_query($conn, "SELECT ip
                                     , page
                                     , CASE WHEN referrer = ''
                                            THEN 'N/A'
                                            ELSE referrer
                                       END as referrer     
                                     , DATE_FORMAT(date, '%m/%d/%y') as date
                                     , TIME_FORMAT(time, '%T') as time
                                FROM tblTraffic 
                                ORDER BY date DESC, time DESC");

most of my traffic report contains the correct times, my time, which is CST in the USA.  but some records are off by a lot.  Does the time() function capture the time of the actual location from which the visitor is coming from?  if so, what could I do to return my timezone for any visitor?  w3 schools and php.net don't mention this.

Let's say I am buying a share for $10.

If I sell the share on the same day BEFORE 3:30PM, it will be sold for $10, but if I keep the share past 3:30PM, I want the code to automatically add $1 (Taxes and such) once in the the price of the share in database, after that no matter how many days pass by, the price will remain the same.

 

I've thought about CRON jobs, but I have no idea how to make/use them or set them up.

 

Any direction or help is appreciated.