Different PHP and MySQL date time

Question

I am facing an issue regarding date time returned by PHP and MySQL . I checked PHP date, using

echo date("Y-m-d h:m:s"); 

It returned

2013-07-31 01:07:37 

then i executed a query in mysql console(phpmyadmin/sqlyog) with query

SELECT NOW() as date_time 

it resulted

2013-07-31 15:40:36 

Firslty I want that both should result dame date time, secondly how can i set any one of them to match the other one.

Note: I checked that on local and live server both

Answer 1

Apart from the typo in the format codes, it seems that MySQL and PHP are not configured to use the same time zone. How to find out?

In MySQL :

mysql> SELECT @@session.time_zone;
+---------------------+
| @@session.time_zone |
+---------------------+
| SYSTEM              |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

(In this example, SYSTEM means "the time zone of the host machine".)

In PHP :

<?php
echo date_default_timezone_get();
// Europe/Madrid

Answer 2

Your date format string is wrong. It should read

date ("Y-m-d H:i:s");

In the documentation it says h is hours in 12-hour format and m is month, not minutes. The difference in two hours can be explained by timezone (and / or DST).