Get system timestamp in wordpress

Question

My system timezone is UTC+1, MySQL is using this timezone and it's ok. Now I want to get the same timestamps in WordPress. As you know, WordPress modifies the current timezone so time() returns UTC-related time. There is a possibility to use current_time('timestamp') to get either UTC timestamp or Wordpress-timezone timestamp. But my WordPress timezone is different from the system one.

So the question is: how can I get SYSTEM timestamp inside the WordPress environment? I guess they should leave a core function for that since I can not use time() anymore.

Of course, there is a stupid solution like (time() + 3600), but I don't like it.

Answer 1

You can use PHP's date() function here, but usually first you'll need to run date_default_timezone_set. UTC+1 looks like Central Europe time from what I can tell, so here's what I'd run:

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
echo date( 'D, d M Y H:i:s', now() );
?>

That will print out the current time from your server.

If you're looking to print out a timestamp from a post, you can use get_post_time and print replace the now() function. Looks like this:

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
echo date( 'D, d M Y H:i:s', get_post_time('U', true) );
?>