How to get the current date and time in PHP?

Which PHP function can return the current date/time?


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The time would go by your server time. An easy workaround for this is to manually set the timezone by using date_default_timezone_set before the date() or time() functions are called to.
I'm in Melbourne, Australia so I have something like this:
date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Melbourne');
Or another example is LA - US:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
You can also see what timezone the server is currently in via:
date_default_timezone_get();
So something like:
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
So the short answer for your question would be:
// Change the line below to your timezone!
date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Melbourne');
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
Then all the times would be to the timezone you just set :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/470617/how-to-get-the-current-date-and-time-in-php

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