I have a section of my site that has a date displayed however when I made it 6 months ago or so, it would always display correct information, now it is wrong by 1 hour I have read that it is because of daylight saings time but my country does not observe daylight savings and the machine time is still correct. here is the code I used to call the date echo date ("F j, Y, g:i a"); does anyone know how I can fix this it is an hour ahead at the moment.

It's the time of the server, so if the server runs daylight savings time, it will show up on the site.

Do you know how I could turn this off, and I assume by server you mean the apache server not the actual operating system cause that seems correct.

you may try something like that:

<?php
putenv('TZ=America/New_York');
echo date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", time());
?>

Originally Posted by lordspace

you may try something like that:

<?php
putenv('TZ=America/New_York');
echo date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", time());
?>

Thanks so much it worked perfectly, great problem finally fixed, now I hope I have not made a mistake cause after your first port I went into my php.ini file and set the timezome and uncommented the line, then i downloaded a timezone.db file off a site and loaded it into the extensions folder in the php folder. do you think i should change this back, cause it is working fine now that your code is in.

No, no need to change again.

The only thing you made was to specify to the php engine in which time zone the server is located.
On unix server, the time stored inside the bios should always be the GMT time, and the os handle the time shift via the timeZone setting.

Probably, the server had another timezone specified, off by 1 hour, and forcing it in php corrected it.
Now, don't worry, updating the TZ definition won't change that. The shift is still the same.

Thanks Tripy for the confirmation, i appreciate any and all information I can get my hands on, thanks.