PHP date() function, what's happening?

[xiofire]

I was happily scripting my blog for the Portfolio I'm building, then along comes the date() function.
Well, the problem is, I posted the comment (originally) on May 12, 5:15.
The output says I posted the comment 11 days and 2 hours back.
I am having this problem with the comments and the blog entries themselves.
Screenshot:

http://dev.limecore.net/photo/uploads/date()bug.png

And here is the PHP:


$datetime=date("l, F I, Y, h:iA");

Can anyone help?
This is probably a stupid error on my part anyways, haha.

[Schmoopy]

Yes it is a silly error, but that's good because it's nothing big to fix :D


From php.net:

I (capital i) Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.

You've got:



$datetime=date("l, F I, Y, h:iA");


Notice the I.

So you're in DST and it's a boolean value, so it shows a 1.

This is not the first of May...

What you want is:



$datetime=date("l, F j, Y, h:iA");


Hope this solves your problem.

j shows the actual day, without leading zeros.

You can use "d" if you want to have them.

[xiofire]

Ahh, thank you!
The day is fixed, but the 2 hour thing is still behind. I suppose I can work that out though, thanks!

[Schmoopy]

Where do you live?

Make sure you set the timezone for your server like so:



date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');


I live in Europe so I set mine like that.

For other timezones look at this page: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

Hope that helps out with the time difference.

[xiofire]

Hey, thanks! It worked!
I live in atlantic canada.
I never heard about the default timezone.
Thanks!

[Schmoopy]

No problem, if you have any more trouble with it I'll be happy to help you.