Using Maria/MySQL Internal Time Functions in the Builder Class?

Because CodeIgniter no longer has the now() method.

Here I created a helper to do it, make sure to place the methods into a help file.

PHP Code:

/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------

/**
 * now () method
 */
if ( ! function_exists('now'))
{
    function now()
    {
        // uses the default timezone.
        return date_create('now')->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    }
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------

/**
 * nowTimeZone () method
 */
if ( ! function_exists('nowTimeZone'))
{
    function nowTimeZone($timeZone)
    {
        // $timeZone format 'America/New_York'
        return date_create('now', timezone_open($timeZone))->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    }
} 


Thanks man for the helper, I figured there was something along those lines going on, but just wasn't sure what it was.