I am trying to create a select list starting from the current date of the user. I want it so that it is set to midnight in unix timestamp format.
This is all I'm doing:
$today = strtotime('today');
echo $today;
This is my result:
1333144800
which is: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:00:00 GMT according to Epoch Converter (incorrect by a couple hours.)
If you want strtotime() to return a timestamp relative to UTC (00:00:00 UTC instead of e.g. 00:00:00 UTC+2, if your system is set to a timezone with an offset of 2 hours against UTC/GMT), you need to specify that:
$today = strtotime('today UTC');
You should check the timezone configuration in your php.ini file. In my case (I live in El Salvador) I had to change it like this:
date.timezone = America/El_Salvador
strtotime( $time )
is designed to return a unix timetamp, meaning, it will return the number of seconds since jan 1, 1970. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
To get around this, use something like:
$today = date("d/m/Y H:i:s", strtotime('today'));
echo $today;
You might have to specifically set the time as well as the day:
$today_midnight = strtotime('today UTC 00:00');
GMT (+0) time
echo $today = strtotime('today GMT');
echo "<br>" . $today = date("d-m-Y H:i:s", $today);
We expect that your server runs at GMT - that is the best (for maneuvering with time displays later). If not, you MUST adjust php.ini set this "date.timezone = GMT".
When you get that done, you will see 00:00 with my codes.
Then, you must develop function (ie DisplayDate()) in your script to display dates of your website correctly if
DisplayDate() should include support for daylight changes also (0, or +1 hour / summer and winter time).