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;
}