How do I get local time with the PHP time function?

You can use this PHP5 (>= 5.1) function:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Zurich');

Replace 'Europe/Zurich' with the param. for your timezone (see them here: http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php ).

Put this func. at the top of your script. All subsequent date/time calculations will be based on that timezone. Simple and efficient.

HTH, Dan

You have a typo in:

"$fecha = $fecha + ($offest * 60 * 60); //multiply offset times 60 minutes times 60 seconds to get the total difference in seconds"

"offest" should equal "offset"

Jeez, even after I did that it's still not working for me....

Not working because you didn't use common sense, even though the example was shot to hell from the start.

Should of read.......
$fecha = time ();
date ( "h:i A" , $time )
Instead of ......
$fecha = time ();
date ( "h:i A" , $date )

And example should of read.....
$fecha - ($offest * 60 * 60);
Instead of ......
$fecha + ($offest * 60 * 60);

Sorry for any offense.

Use this function

//Display local country time, instent of displaying server time,
//If you country is Sri Lanka and web server in in USA, you can use the following script to solve your problem
//$datetime variable shuld contain the date time like date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
//$diferent variable is the diferent between server and your local country like +5.5 -6
//$mylenth from the final out put you can tell to the function how many character from $myafter sould display
//better to keep $myafter=0 and $mylenth=0 as it is

function SafGetLocalTime($datetime,$myafter=0,$mylenth=0,$diferent){ //get local time pass datetime and diferent
list($year,$month,$day,$hour,$minute,$second) = explode("-",str_replace(array(" ",":"),"-",$datetime));
$hour = ($hour+$diferent);
$datetime = mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year);

if ($mylenth==0) {
$datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i:s',$datetime);
}else{
$datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i:s',$datetime);
$datetime = substr($datetime,$myafter,$mylenth);
}
return $datetime;
}

If you want a fix local time, you can add or minus the hour you get from date(). Or if you want local pc time whoever go to the page, you need javascript.

var today=new Date();
var h=today.getHours();
var m=today.getMinutes();
var s=today.getSeconds();