如何存储到期时间？

Question

I want to store the expiration time in database. I am using the below code to store expiration time with +1 year.

$cdate = time();
$date = $cdate + 365*24*60*60;
$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$date);

but its not storing the correct time it stores 2014-08-10 07:55:14 but time on storing is 2014-08-10 01:25:14. Aslo not sure its Am or Pm .

Thanks.

Answer 1

Time/date functions in PHP are using timezones to determine your local time. So if your server is in timezone GMT+6 that means that the date() function will return you the date/time that is 6 hours before GMT.

You can check the date_default_timezone_set() function manual to find out how PHP is selecting your timezone.

To set your timezone, you can use date_default_timezone_set() before calling date function or you can set you php.ini setting date.timezone to your timezone.

For the second part of your question - when formatting time using the date() function the H format character will return 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros.