I can easily write a clumsy function to do this, but is there an easy way to get the "correct" local UK date/time from a timestamp, rather than it always being GMT (which at certain times of year - like now - would be an hour behind).
Thanks
The exact date when the UK changes timezone changes by year, so I wouldn't recommend trying to implement the logic yourself. You can initialise a DateTime object to the correct timezone (Europe/London), and then set it to your timestamp:
<?php
$timestamp = 1500000000;
$dateTime = new \DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
$dateTime->setTimestamp($timestamp);
echo $dateTime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
// 2017-07-14 03:40:00