Dates aren't adjusting for timezone










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INSPDATE is a datetime field in an MS SQL database. Normally when we pull in a date, the browser automatically corrects it to our EST, but it doesn't work on this inspection report I'm creating. I've tried



echo date('m/d/Y g:i a ', strtotime($row['INSPDATE']));


But that returns the date from 1970 (12/31/1969 7:00 pm) and isn't pulling in the value from the database.



Below is what I was using that returns the date just as it's saved in the db. I know there's a way to subtract 18000 to this to adjust to EST (-5 hrs), but I'm not sure where to put it. I get error messages about mixing up datetimes and non-numeric values.



<?php

require_once ('connection.php');

$sql = "SELECT INSPDATE, FACILID FROM dbo.SWFACILITYINSPECTION WHERE FACILID = 'E667'";
$query = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql );
while ($row=sqlsrv_fetch_array( $query ))

//This will show dates, but it's database time (UTC, so +5 hours)
echo date_format($row['INSPDATE'], 'm/d/Y g:i a ');



?>









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  • You probably don't want to hard code the offset because it almost always fluctuates.
    – Ross Bush
    Nov 12 at 14:21











  • You mean fluctuating for like daylight saving time? It doesn't actually matter that much. These are inspection reports for a small county government. They just need something more accurate than +5 hours.
    – KVarney
    Nov 12 at 14:35















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INSPDATE is a datetime field in an MS SQL database. Normally when we pull in a date, the browser automatically corrects it to our EST, but it doesn't work on this inspection report I'm creating. I've tried



echo date('m/d/Y g:i a ', strtotime($row['INSPDATE']));


But that returns the date from 1970 (12/31/1969 7:00 pm) and isn't pulling in the value from the database.



Below is what I was using that returns the date just as it's saved in the db. I know there's a way to subtract 18000 to this to adjust to EST (-5 hrs), but I'm not sure where to put it. I get error messages about mixing up datetimes and non-numeric values.



<?php

require_once ('connection.php');

$sql = "SELECT INSPDATE, FACILID FROM dbo.SWFACILITYINSPECTION WHERE FACILID = 'E667'";
$query = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql );
while ($row=sqlsrv_fetch_array( $query ))

//This will show dates, but it's database time (UTC, so +5 hours)
echo date_format($row['INSPDATE'], 'm/d/Y g:i a ');



?>









share|improve this question





















  • You probably don't want to hard code the offset because it almost always fluctuates.
    – Ross Bush
    Nov 12 at 14:21











  • You mean fluctuating for like daylight saving time? It doesn't actually matter that much. These are inspection reports for a small county government. They just need something more accurate than +5 hours.
    – KVarney
    Nov 12 at 14:35













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INSPDATE is a datetime field in an MS SQL database. Normally when we pull in a date, the browser automatically corrects it to our EST, but it doesn't work on this inspection report I'm creating. I've tried



echo date('m/d/Y g:i a ', strtotime($row['INSPDATE']));


But that returns the date from 1970 (12/31/1969 7:00 pm) and isn't pulling in the value from the database.



Below is what I was using that returns the date just as it's saved in the db. I know there's a way to subtract 18000 to this to adjust to EST (-5 hrs), but I'm not sure where to put it. I get error messages about mixing up datetimes and non-numeric values.



<?php

require_once ('connection.php');

$sql = "SELECT INSPDATE, FACILID FROM dbo.SWFACILITYINSPECTION WHERE FACILID = 'E667'";
$query = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql );
while ($row=sqlsrv_fetch_array( $query ))

//This will show dates, but it's database time (UTC, so +5 hours)
echo date_format($row['INSPDATE'], 'm/d/Y g:i a ');



?>









share|improve this question













INSPDATE is a datetime field in an MS SQL database. Normally when we pull in a date, the browser automatically corrects it to our EST, but it doesn't work on this inspection report I'm creating. I've tried



echo date('m/d/Y g:i a ', strtotime($row['INSPDATE']));


But that returns the date from 1970 (12/31/1969 7:00 pm) and isn't pulling in the value from the database.



Below is what I was using that returns the date just as it's saved in the db. I know there's a way to subtract 18000 to this to adjust to EST (-5 hrs), but I'm not sure where to put it. I get error messages about mixing up datetimes and non-numeric values.



<?php

require_once ('connection.php');

$sql = "SELECT INSPDATE, FACILID FROM dbo.SWFACILITYINSPECTION WHERE FACILID = 'E667'";
$query = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql );
while ($row=sqlsrv_fetch_array( $query ))

//This will show dates, but it's database time (UTC, so +5 hours)
echo date_format($row['INSPDATE'], 'm/d/Y g:i a ');



?>






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  • You probably don't want to hard code the offset because it almost always fluctuates.
    – Ross Bush
    Nov 12 at 14:21











  • You mean fluctuating for like daylight saving time? It doesn't actually matter that much. These are inspection reports for a small county government. They just need something more accurate than +5 hours.
    – KVarney
    Nov 12 at 14:35
















  • You probably don't want to hard code the offset because it almost always fluctuates.
    – Ross Bush
    Nov 12 at 14:21











  • You mean fluctuating for like daylight saving time? It doesn't actually matter that much. These are inspection reports for a small county government. They just need something more accurate than +5 hours.
    – KVarney
    Nov 12 at 14:35















You probably don't want to hard code the offset because it almost always fluctuates.
– Ross Bush
Nov 12 at 14:21





You probably don't want to hard code the offset because it almost always fluctuates.
– Ross Bush
Nov 12 at 14:21













You mean fluctuating for like daylight saving time? It doesn't actually matter that much. These are inspection reports for a small county government. They just need something more accurate than +5 hours.
– KVarney
Nov 12 at 14:35




You mean fluctuating for like daylight saving time? It doesn't actually matter that much. These are inspection reports for a small county government. They just need something more accurate than +5 hours.
– KVarney
Nov 12 at 14:35












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You should always do this conversion in application logic, since your sql is inline, I suppose you could embed the calculation in your sql. If I knew PHP better, I would be more inclined to learn the date math using the language of the application, that way you could build a time zone library to use on dates elsewhere and free your queries,store procedures up to be, just queries and stored procedures that return data.



DECLARE @Offset INT = -5

SELECT INSPDATE_UTC=INSPDATE, INSPDATE_LOCAL = DATEADD(HOUR, @Offset,INSPDATE)





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  • Thank you! This was perfect!
    – KVarney
    Nov 13 at 16:00










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You should always do this conversion in application logic, since your sql is inline, I suppose you could embed the calculation in your sql. If I knew PHP better, I would be more inclined to learn the date math using the language of the application, that way you could build a time zone library to use on dates elsewhere and free your queries,store procedures up to be, just queries and stored procedures that return data.



DECLARE @Offset INT = -5

SELECT INSPDATE_UTC=INSPDATE, INSPDATE_LOCAL = DATEADD(HOUR, @Offset,INSPDATE)





share|improve this answer




















  • Thank you! This was perfect!
    – KVarney
    Nov 13 at 16:00















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You should always do this conversion in application logic, since your sql is inline, I suppose you could embed the calculation in your sql. If I knew PHP better, I would be more inclined to learn the date math using the language of the application, that way you could build a time zone library to use on dates elsewhere and free your queries,store procedures up to be, just queries and stored procedures that return data.



DECLARE @Offset INT = -5

SELECT INSPDATE_UTC=INSPDATE, INSPDATE_LOCAL = DATEADD(HOUR, @Offset,INSPDATE)





share|improve this answer




















  • Thank you! This was perfect!
    – KVarney
    Nov 13 at 16:00













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You should always do this conversion in application logic, since your sql is inline, I suppose you could embed the calculation in your sql. If I knew PHP better, I would be more inclined to learn the date math using the language of the application, that way you could build a time zone library to use on dates elsewhere and free your queries,store procedures up to be, just queries and stored procedures that return data.



DECLARE @Offset INT = -5

SELECT INSPDATE_UTC=INSPDATE, INSPDATE_LOCAL = DATEADD(HOUR, @Offset,INSPDATE)





share|improve this answer












You should always do this conversion in application logic, since your sql is inline, I suppose you could embed the calculation in your sql. If I knew PHP better, I would be more inclined to learn the date math using the language of the application, that way you could build a time zone library to use on dates elsewhere and free your queries,store procedures up to be, just queries and stored procedures that return data.



DECLARE @Offset INT = -5

SELECT INSPDATE_UTC=INSPDATE, INSPDATE_LOCAL = DATEADD(HOUR, @Offset,INSPDATE)






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