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Help with Dates in EE.

April 20, 2011 5:19am

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#1 / Apr 20, 2011 5:19am
Mike Bray
11 posts
Hi,

I have a channel which has a field containing a date in it. When I pull that value from the database and display it, it is actually displaying the day before.

I.e. in the EE publish thing I select 22nd May 2011 9:00AM and when I pull it out of the database it displays 21st May 2011.
```
<?php print date( 'D d F Y', $event_date); ?>
```
With $event_date being pulled from the related entry in the database. I imagine that this has something to do with timezones? How do I set it up so that it doesn’t factor in Time Zones etc at all. If I save something as 22nd May 2010 and then pull it out using the php date function I want it to be the exact same time that I entered…
#2 / Apr 20, 2011 7:02am
John Henry Donovan
12339 posts
Mike,

Do you get same date if you use the native EE date formatting?
```
{entry_date format="%F %d %Y"}
```
What version and build of EE are you using?