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In PHP, to have today's date you can use the built in function date() or the following function I wrote, to make sure to add the correct time zone with the day light saving.

We assume that all the functions will be saved in a file called php_functions.php

<?php
function today($time_zone,$format)
{
$zone=3600*$time_zone;
$today=gmdate($format, time() + $zone);
return $today;
}
?>

Explaining the above function is quite simple, as you can see ,it has 2 parameters,$time_zone is your time zone that will be added to the GMT time plus day light saving in summer if you have it, $format is where you put the format you want the date to appear in your page, for complete formatting details, visit the PHP manual page.

$zone=3600*$time_zone; The variable $zone will hold the result of your time zone by 3600 which are the seconds in 1 hour

$today will hold the formatted date resulting by the return of the built in PHP function gmdate

See the example below to use the function

<?php
include 'php_functions.php';

$time_zone=8;
$format='d-m-Y';
$today=today($time_zone,$format);
echo $today;
?>

Try the example below

Your time zone
The format you want
Today date is

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