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I am trying to send the time to flash but set to the currently timezone. When you view the below even though the echo date, looks like its working the $time is the same. When i test in flash I get the extra hour added. Any help tips welcome on this one...

$format = "d/m/Y H:m:s";
$timezone = "Europe/Amsterdam";
date_default_timezone_set($timezone);

echo "<h1>Timezone ".$timezone."</h1>";
$date = date($format);
echo "<h3>Date: ".$date."<h3>";
$time = strtotime($date);
echo "<h3>Time: ".$time."<h3>";
$date2 = date($format, $time);
echo "<h3>Reverse: ".$date2."<h3>";


$timezone = "Europe/London";
date_default_timezone_set($timezone);

echo "<h1>Timezone ".$timezone."</h1>";
$date = date($format);
echo "<h3>Date: ".$date."<h3>";
$time = strtotime($date);
echo "<h3>Time: ".$time."<h3>";
$date2 = date($format, $time);
echo "<h3>Reverse: ".$date2."<h3>";


?>

Answer 1

Can't you use the PHP time() object for this? Pass this value:

time()."000" // note the trailing zeroes

Call that serverTime and pass it as a query string:

echo "myFlashFile.swf?serverTime=".time()."000";

Then in your Actionscript:

myDate = new Date();
myDate.setTime(serverTime);