PHP or Server Date/Time DST Issue

visibleman · 12 Jul 2012 at 18:04

Brains a bit frazzled so i'm assuming i'm being a little slow but the situation/issue is - i have two servers, same PHP version on both (5.2.17), same timezone (Europe/London) on both which is set correctly via php.ini, both report that we're current in DST/BST and give the current GMT difference but when outputting the time, one is running an hour slow. :confused:

Is it likely to be a simple case of system clock error, with one possibly being UTC/GMT and the other being corrected for DST/BST (unfortunately i don't have SSH access to either servers otherwise i'd check)?
Although i've always assumed if the timezone is set correctly within PHP then date functions automatically counter for any DST offset :confused:

Cheers for any help!

Xelene · 12 Jul 2012 at 18:14

phpinfo();

visibleman · 12 Jul 2012 at 19:22

sldsmkd said:
phpinfo();

First thing i checked and as mentioned, all date/time variables appear to be the same.
But incase i'm going insane (i've striped sensitive data) - SERVER 1 and SERVER 2

Xelene · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:13

One's on BST and the other is on GMT. Are either VMs?

Should be able to shell out to time or date (never remember which is which) in a php script, also may be able to cat /etc/timezone/ or whatever it is on the host OS.

visibleman · 13 Jul 2012 at 08:02

Did i miss anything in the phpinfo() that states that one is set to BST/GMT?

Good thinking, will try and Shell/Exec date and see what i get back.