Bizarre date problem

PHP
1

This is really weird and I’m hoping there’s a really simple answer…

According to php.net, to get the current day of the week you should use

$day = date("l");

So this is my code:

// Set Timezone
date_default_timezone_set('America/New York');

// What day of the week is it (Mon - Sun)
$day = date("l");

But it keeps saying today is “Mon”

This isn’t even a full textual representation of the day, it’s just a textual representation of a day, three letters which according to php.net is achieved by using date(‘D’) - Yet even when I use this it still says “Mon”

Why is it doing this when today is in fact Friday in New York (Saturday where I am) — nowhere in the world is it currently Monday!

2

That is weird. I don’t really know why that’s happening. One thing, though, “New York” should have an underscore instead of a space. That shouldn’t be the problem, though.
http://www.php.net/timezones

If you run just that code, $day is “Mon” ?

3 
<?php
// Set Timezone
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
// What day of the week is it (Mon - Sun)
$day = date("l");
echo $day;
?>

That shows Saturday for me (since today is Saturday when making this reply).

4

Could we see the full code that prints out “Mon?”

5

My first impulse is to say “Your system time is off.”… do you get Monday for every date function?