vbdate() function

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I am not able to retrieve the current time according to user's timezone settings using vbdate()

I am using this, but this always shows 01st of January, 1970:-

PHP Code:

$timestamp = vbdate("jS \of F, Y h:i:s A", $result['TIMESTAMP']); 


Then I use this, and it works fine but always show time 5 hours back.

PHP Code:

$eventdate = strtotime($result['TIMESTAMP']);
$timestamp = vbdate("jS \of F, Y h:i:s A", $eventdate); 


What wrong am I doing? To insert current time, i have simply created a column of datatype TIMESTAMP and it inserts fine.

Thank You