Server Time Discrepancy?

[czerdrill]

I have a script on my server which allows me to make announcements that I can backdate, postdate or date current to display to my users. However, if I put the current date and time, it doesn't display. I have to backdate it in order for it to show up. So I assumed there's some issue with the server time. However, the host told me that the server is EST and that's where I am too.

I even added date.timezone="America/New_York" to php.ini and that is reflected correctly in phpinfo.php. So is there some other reason this would be happening?

[cPanelTristan]

How are you putting the current date and time in the script? Are there any errors in the site's error_log when trying to set it that way?