My IF condition is not working and is directly jumping into the ELSE statement-CodePudding

I want to check whether the current time is past 12p.m and pass and execute the codes indie the IF statement but it is directly going into the Else statement. I think the condition is not right. May I know the right way of finding out whether the current time has past the specific time that I've given?

My codes

<?php

                if (date('H') > 12){

                    $myDate = date('m/d/Y');

                    include_once '../classes/config.php';

                    $con = mysqli_connect(HOST, USER, PASS, DB) or die('Connection Error! '.mysqli_error($con));

                    $checkuser = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT * FROM patient_diary WHERE patient_id = '$id' AND date = '$myDate'") or die(mysqli_error($con));
                    $result = mysqli_num_rows($checkuser);
                   
                    if ($result){?>
                        <div class="head">
                            <div class="title">INSERT STATUS</div>
                        </div>
                        <form action="" method="POST">
                            <div class="insert-details">
                                <div class="input-value">
                                    <small>Condition</small>
                                    <select name="condition" class="conditionscale" required>
                                        <option value="" selected hidden>Select status</option>
                                        <option value="much better">Much Better</option>
                                        <option value="better">Better</option>
                                        <option value="same">Same</option>
                                        <option value="worse">Worse</option>
                                        <option value="much worse">Much Worse</option>
                                    </select>
                                </div>
                                <div class="input-value">
                                    <small>Food</small>
                                    <textarea type="text" name="role" placeholder="What did you have?" required></textarea>
                                </div>
                                <div class="input-value">
                                    <small>Date</small>
                                    <input type="text" id="date" name="date" placeholder="MM-DD-YYYY" onfocus="(this.type='date')" onblur="(this.type='text')" required>
                                </div>
                            </div>
                            <div class="insert-elements">
                                <input id="reset" type="reset" name="reset"  class="reset-btn" value="Reset">
                                <input type="submit" name="submitInsert" class="insert-btn" value="Enter" id="insertbtn">
                            </div>
                    <?php } else{ ?>
                        <div class="no-head">
                            <div class="title">You can enter your status details only once a day.</div>
                        </div>
                    <?php } 
                } else{ ?>
                    <div class="no-head">
                        <div class="title">You are allowed to enter your status everyday after 6 p.m only</div>
                    </div>
                <?php
                }
            ?>

CodePudding user response：

If you use "strtotime" when comparing dates, the problem goes away.

CodePudding user response：

My timezone was not properly set inside the php.ini file. But even without making any changes over there I used the below code to get the right current hour I'm in by declaring my region and city.

  date_default_timezone_set('Region/City');

You can also refer to this link of lists to find what you exactly have to type to get the right time for the place you want.