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Php Bugs 
Mage::app()->getLocale()->date(null, null, null, false)->toString(Varien_Date::DATETIME_INTERNAL_FORMAT),
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[…] Magento: Get the current date and time according to the … – ← Magento: change system timezone. Magento … The offset will always be your local timezone in PHP (should be +00:00 as Magento sets UTC explicitly) … my web server has set to EST and has show me time with 4 hour ahead. […]
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The above code simply adds an offset to the UTC time which makes the time wrong. If your timezone is +4:00 then time() (i.e. now) will actually be four hours in the future! It’s OK if all you’re doing is printing the date but if you’re storing the value of Mage::getModel(‘core/date’)->timestamp(time()) to a database (which should be in UTC) the time will be wrong. You can see this with the following code:
timestamp(time()));
?>
The offset will always be your local timezone in PHP (should be +00:00 as Magento sets UTC explicitly) regardless of what you set in Magento config.
This code is better:
getLocale()->storeDate(Mage::app()->getStore(), null, true)->toString(‘Y-MM-dd HH:mm:ss’);
?>
It is timezone, daylight saving and locale aware and uses UTC time internally.
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Re: phpbugs
Thanks, using it to post a notification on my site when store is closed (we’re a restaurant).
Just a note to anyone copying and pasting your code, the apostrophe is not the correct character in your code, it’s displayed now as a single quote character (probably automatically done by the comment system). So just retype the apostrophes when using the code.
Thanks!
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Hey………. it work.
my web server has set to EST and has show me time with 4 hour ahead.
But my using the above code it gave me correct time as per the timezone.
Thanks a lot for your valuable post.
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sounds good, I’ll try the code right now, thanks a lot
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Hy, you can help me? I wish I could change the welcome message depending on the time in mangeto. Ex.: good morning, good evening …
do you have any idea?
thank you
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What about using the below code:
<?php
$hour = date(“H”, Mage::getModel(‘core/date’)->timestamp(time()));
if(hour < 12){
return “good morning”;
}elseif(hour > 11 && hour < 15){
return “good afternoon”;
}elseif(hour > 15){
return “good evening”;
}
?>
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