title: php time 'off' by 8 hours and 14 minutes
body: <p>I have a time / date problem. I'm trying to compare the current date and time the the date / time at the beginning of the day (midnight). 
  The current time is: </p>
  
  <pre><code>echo date('d M, Y H:i:s e')."&lt;br&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This returns, as expected: "07 Oct, 2014 12:51:25 America/Los_Angeles"</p>
  
  <p>Then to get the time at midnight at the start of today, I have:    </p>
  
  <pre><code>echo date('d M, Y H:i:s e',strtotime(date('D, d M, Y')))."&lt;br&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which returns this: "07 Oct, 2014 20:14:00 America/Los_Angeles"</p>
  
  <p>The 10 (8pm) is odd since shouldn't UTC be 08:00 not 20:00? and the 14 minutes?</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me understand what is going one here? What am I missing?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks      </p>