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PHP PHP Standards and Best Practices Databases and International Concerns Understanding Time Zones

Robert Walker
Robert Walker
17,146 Points
Posted by Robert Walker
Robert Walker
17,146 Points

Little confused need help!

Currently building my own framework (trying to learn more) and have got to the part where I need to deal with dates and times for my users along with adding a URL request logger.

I have watched the video and tried this:

 $currentDateTime = date('Y/m/d h:i:s', time());
 $localTime = new DateTime($currentDateTime, new DateTimeZone('Europe/London')); 
 $utcDateTime = clone $localTime;
 $utcDateTime->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));

However both output the same time.

Read a few posts on stack, watched the video lots of times but cant understand it and I havnt even got to outputting it yet, that's going to be fun!