PHP date function displaying wrong day

Question

I am trying to get todays day using PHP date function but it is coming back with 31/03/2013 which is tomorrow. I have tried changing the default timezone but it still returns the same.

    date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Dublin');
    echo date("d/m/Y");

Any ideas?

Are you sure the server-time is correct? Also today may be a bad day to test dates since many countries switch DST — Eric Herlitz, Mar 30 '13 at 19:56
It's on my windows PC running WAMP. The date on the systray clock is correct unless there is somewhere else I should be checking? — User787665, Mar 30 '13 at 19:58
Can you do `echo time()` both before and after `date_default_timezone_set`? — Tushar, Mar 30 '13 at 20:02
Yep. The timezone seems to be correct as the time stamp doesn't change when I add/remove the date_default_timezone_set() — User787665, Mar 30 '13 at 20:10

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '13 at 20:22

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Looks to like bug in php 5.3.2-1. Try to run the php script in the bug report and post your results.

answered Mar 30 '13 at 20:22

justnajm

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-1 vote for : look at here http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php , at the end of the example 4 , there is a statement , `To format dates in other languages, you should use the setlocale() and strftime() functions instead of date(). ` – Ali Akbar Azizi Mar 30 '13 at 21:20
@CooPer that link to the fix is dead – jordan Mar 11 '17 at 23:49
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php – Said Torres May 19 '22 at 18:47

PHP date function displaying wrong day

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