PHP wrong date/time

Question

PHP date() & time() return incorrect time:

When date.timezone = \"Europe/Riga\" the time returned by date() was <

Answer 1

PHP time is based on epoch time scale which uses GMT and later UTC. Most people now refer to it as unix time. Because PHP uses unix time, timezones are not used. I believe subtracting the timezone hours in seconds is the correct method to adjust for the differences.