PHP coding question
How do I add DateTimeZone (‘America/NewYork’) to the PHP code at the end? I need my code to use filemtime. I included this footer.html in my main files so that all my website pages have the same footer. I also need the footer to filemtime the current file and not just header.html. If you know how to fix that too, please help me out.
<footer>
<div style="padding:0 30px">
<p>Validated by:</p>
<a href="https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="https://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml11"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.1" height="31" width="88"></a>
<a href="https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img
src="https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss-blue" alt="Valid CSS"></a>
<p>Last modified:
<?php echo " ".date("F j Y g:i a.", filemtime("header.html")); ?>
</p>
</div>
</footer>
I tried rewritting the whole thing but nothing worked. As in nothing showing up at all or the time is 0:0.0
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Answers
What you want, if I understand you correctly is to output the timestamp of
filemtime("header.html")
in the timezone ofAmerica/NewYork
.This is how you would do that:
Note that it is
America/New_York
and notAmerica/NewYork
.If you want to display the
filemtime
of the current file you can use__FILE__
:filemtime() produces a Unix time, which is not subject to time zones (it’s a fixed moment in time). All PHP functions that operate on Unix time and require a time zone (e.g. date()) read it from the global value. Such value can be set with the
date.timezone
directive or the date_default_timezone_set() function.