How to get local time in php?

Question

I am trying to get the local time using php. I wrote two different versions, but they both give the wrong time

date_default_timezone_set(\'UTC\');
$now = new Dat         


        

Answer 1

For the record, I found the only solution to read the real hour of the machine is to read the information outside of PHP (javascript, shell or other processes). Why?

For example, let's say we have an hour based in daily-saving. What if the timezone of the OS (Windows in my case) is not in sync with the timezone of PHP, I mean, it could be calculated differently. Or maybe the machine is using a different hour and it is ignoring the daily-saving hour.

Right now, my zone is UTC -4 Santiago 9:35 pm (with daily saving). However, PHP considers as 10:35 PM (using localtime,time,date and DateTime).