Set Your Site’s Date/Time Settings On Shared Hosting Using PHP5’s date_default_timezone_set()

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One annoyance with putting my customer's site on shared hosting is not being able to control the date and time on the hosting server. Sure, I could simply host with a local company but that's not always the most cost-effective option.

I use a new function to PHP5, the date_default_timezone_set() function, which allows you to set your time zone. The obvious requirement is PHP5. PHP4 is no longer supported so I look forward to seeing more servers hosting PHP5.

date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');

Check out the full list of time zones to see which one you should use.

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Discussion

  1. Steve

    Learned this the hard way. Hey – worked in 4.x?? Wot?? Since in live where there is no daylight savings time ever, real fubar…

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