How to get date and time from server

Question

I want to retrieve date and time from server and according to it do some thing. For this I used following code:

$info = getdate();
$date = $info[\'mday\'];
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Answer 1

You can use the "system( string $command[, int &$return_var] ) : string" function. For Windows system( "time" );, system( "time > output.txt" ); to put the response in the output.txt file. If you plan on deploying your website on someone else's server, then you may not want to hardcode the server time, as the server may move to an unknown timezone. Then it may be best to set the default time zone in the php.ini file. I use Hostinger and they allow you to configure that php.ini value.