Server is the wrong time

Question

So I am from the UK and have hosting in the US. I contacted my host and said that my server time is set 6 hours behind GMT. They said I need to alter this in my CMS. How would i go about doing this? Whenever i put now() i am getting the wrong time. Never seen this before, could anyone offer any suggestions?

Accepted Answer

You can change the timezone using PHP

```
putenv("TZ=Europe/London");
```

or if that produces an error:

```
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
```

Alternatively if you can gain access to your php.ini (maybe not due to your hosting)

```
date.timezone = "Europe/London"
```

Change the setting to the above and you should be ok. Additional to the above - you can set the php.ini with PHP

```
ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/London');
```

http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.europe.php

Edit:

In my rush to answer - you could write GMT instead of Europe/London

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