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authorIban Eguia <admin@razican.com>2012-03-27 18:36:15 +0200
committerIban Eguia <admin@razican.com>2012-03-27 18:36:15 +0200
commit7bf0a4ff35efc758ef43b3a848e655285946b8b6 (patch)
tree7d1ab063257edbc343ffb7c37fb7fdd462ed1e6d /user_guide_src/source/helpers
parent8310595f0e80f72ac790478b8a7dfc6470051639 (diff)
Added doccumentation for the new date helper.
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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst22
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
index b21d147bd..b8c3dd076 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
@@ -20,14 +20,20 @@ The following functions are available:
now()
=====
-Returns the current time as a Unix timestamp, referenced either to your
-server's local time or GMT, based on the "time reference" setting in
-your config file. If you do not intend to set your master time reference
-to GMT (which you'll typically do if you run a site that lets each user
-set their own timezone settings) there is no benefit to using this
-function over PHP's time() function.
-
-.. php:method:: now()
+Returns the current time as a Unix timestamp, based on the "timezone" parameter.
+All PHP available timezones are supported.
+
+.. php:method:: now($timezone = NULL)
+
+ :param string $timezone: The timezone you want to be returned
+ :returns: integer
+
+::
+
+ $tz = "Australia/Victoria";
+ echo now($tz);
+
+If a timezone is not provided, it will return time() based on "timezone" setting.
mdate()
=======