get server time in php - timezone issues

Question

on shell, my server time is (simple date in bash): Sun Aug 29 10:37:12 EDT 2010

when I run the code php -r \"echo date(\'Y-m-d H:i:s\');\"

Answer 1

Late for the party, but if you want to set the timezone without edit php.ini, you can put in the php code one of these strings:

date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Zurich');
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');