Hi, I´m using this class in a module I´m developing for user to choose a date interval.

The problem is that if your server has diferent time than GMT the date showed( based on time() ) does not match the date that is set for xoops.

I´ve notice this is many modules. Smartsection is an example. When I need to change the time date of the article I cannot choose the displayed data, I have to do some maths to get the right setting.


Thanks!

Can you please give an example?

I think server time and php time are not the same. I live in Portugal so I set my zone time to GMT+0. For time show correctly in my comment posts etc I have to set server time to GMT -5.
However, when using getDate(time()) the return value is not based in this server time(GMT-5), it returns something like GMT-8.
So server time is not equal to php time.

If I had something like

putenv ('TZ=Europe/Lisbon');

then the formdatetime.php return the correct date for me!

This means that before using getDate() or other date functions, we must set a correct time zone for our php.

putenv() requires safe mode. There an alternative function for php 5:

http://php.net/manual/pt_BR/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

Am I missing something?