Adjust date/time for GMT 2

[frozenpeas]

Hello,

I am located in Canada, but my server is in the UK. What is the best way to adjust to GMT -7 hours?

Thus far, I am using:

$date = date('l F j, Y');

But of course, that is returning the time of the server in the UK.

Thanks for your help.

frozenpeas

 

[iTST]

$timezone = -7;
echo date('l F j, Y', time() + 3600*($timezone+date("I")));

Not sure about Daylightsavingstime in Canada, so you might wish to remove '+date("I")' from the above formula.

HTH, Sascha

cu, Sascha

http://www.itst.org/

 

[Olavxxx]

use the php putenv:

putenv ('TZ=Europe/Amsterdam');

here is my database-design for making your own iso3166 timezone script:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/quickcode/code/333.php

I where considering releasing the phpcode too, but it's too time-consuming for me to extract the code, explain, etc.

it's very easy to make a basic timezone script..
1: let users register with country
2: add TZ field to user-table
3: when user logs in, check if TZ field is != NULL
a) if != null, use putenv("TZ=tz from db");
b) if == null, run natural join on user-table (country), iso3166 and TZ table..
b.1) if 1 row returned, set that as TZ
b.2) if > 1 row returned, show dropdown list of avail. tz
b.2.1) let user select tz and set that to usertable tz

ps. this will not affect the mysql timezone.. so you also need something to calculate the difference between server-time and current timezone set via TZ=..

you can do this in the query.. maybe another field: tz-diff is nice to have, so you dont have to run a $foo = $bar - $newbar; and then run $foo in the query.

I hope you get what I'm saying.

good luck!

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

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