GMT vs UTC dates

javascript php date utc gmt
Tom picture Tom · Oct 23, 2009 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I have a calendar built in JavaScript that compares dates with PHP. The JavaScript date object is set using PHP, but, when I compare future dates, they appear to be out of sync.

PHP is set to GMT and JavaScript is set to UTC; how do these standards differ, and could this be causing the problem?

Answer

user151323 picture user151323 · Oct 23, 2009

From Coordinated Universal Time on Wikipedia:

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a time standard based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation.

From Greenwich Mean Time on Wikipedia:

UTC is an atomic time scale which only approximates GMT with a tolerance of 0.9 second

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