Magento get TimeStamp not working well

Question

I want to display a specific attribute only when the set time is not passed. Therefore I created the following code:

<?php $dateFrom = Mage::app()->getLocale()->storeTimeStamp(); $dateTo = $_product->getData('actie_datum_eind');?>
<?php if (Mage::app()->getLocale()->isStoreDateInInterval($store, $dateFrom, $dateTo)) : ?>
    <div class="product-sale-label custom"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getData('actie_label')); ?></div>
<?php endif;?>

But does not work, the label is not displayed.

When I echo both values, I get the following results:

<?php echo $_product->getData('actie_datum_eind')?><br>
<?php echo Mage::app()->getLocale()->storeTimeStamp()?>

That results in the following:

2017-10-04 00:00:00
1505465811

The results of:

<?php echo $dateFrom?><br>
<?php echo $dateTo?>

Are:

1505465811
2017-10-04 00:00:00

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Magento 2

Proper way

use Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime\TimezoneInterface;
/**
* @var TimezoneInterface
*/
protected $localeDate;

public function __construct(
    TimezoneInterface $localeDate
) {
   $this->localeDate = $localeDate;
}

$this->localeDate->isScopeDateInInterval($store,$FromDate,$ToDate);

Answer 2

<?php echo $_product->getData('actie_datum_eind') ?> //2017-10-04 00:00:00, your attribute value.

<?php $date = new DateTime();
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimezone('Europe/Paris'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d h:i:s'); ?> //2017-09-15 09:55:59, the actual date time.