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I’m having timezone issues with EE 2.7.2—here’s a simple test PHP script I’m using to output the date:

<?php
print date(‘r’);
print “, “;
print date(‘D, d M Y H:i:s T’);
print “\n”;
?>

When run inside of a template with php parsing enabled in EE, this outputs:

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:31:13 +0000, Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:31:13 UTC

When run as a stand-alone PHP script in the same server, I get this as a result:

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:29:21 -0800, Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:29:21 PST

The latter is correct; it’s displaying in the timezone of the server:

[admin@crushlivepoker scripts]$ date
Wed Dec 11 09:31:58 PST 2013

I confirmed that PHP has the proper timezone configured in php.ini:

[admin@crushlivepoker scripts]$ php -i | grep timezone
Default timezone => US/Pacific
date.timezone => US/Pacific => US/Pacific

So I’d assume this is an EE issue of some sort; I checked Admin->Localization Settings and the timezone is indeed set correctly there.

What am I missing?

I was told this:

Since EE2.6, time is not interpreted through native EE function, but rather
through a simple date(...) function, which does not work.

Anyone aware of this?  Should I just explicitly set the timezone in my PHP code?  Why is there even a timezone setting in EE if this is the case?

Have you tried to get the timestamp from $this->EE->localize->now?

In addition to the default timezone set up in EE there’s also one for users, where they may have a certain timezone set (Found under Edit profile -> Localization). This might be your issue (if you are logged in as a user with a different timezone set than your server timezone).

Also, there’s a config item called “server_offset” which specifies the minutes to offset the server time with. This will affect the value returned from $this->EE->localize->now

by the way, this place is a ghosttown compared to http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/ .. you’ll probably have more luck asking EE related questions there.