PHP date with timezone

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So I ve checked the list of supported time zones in PHP and I was wondering how could I include them in the date   function  Thanks  I don t want a default timezone  each user has their timezone stored in the database  I take that timezone of the user and use it  How  I know how to take it from the database  not how to use it  though

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Not mentioned above  You could also crate a DateTime object by providing a timestamp as string in the constructor with a leading   sign   dt   new DateTime   123456789     dt- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  America New York     echo  dt- gt format  F j  Y - G i     See the documentation about compound formats  https   www php net manual en datetime formats compound php

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For such task  you should really be using PHP s DateTime class  Please ignore all of the answers advising you to use date   or date set time zone  it s simply bad and outdated   I ll use pseudocode to demonstrate  so try to adjust the code to suit your needs   Assuming that variable  tz contains string name of a valid time zone and variable  timestamp contains the timestamp you wish to format according to time zone  the code would look like this     tz    Europe London    timestamp   time     dt   new DateTime  now   new DateTimeZone  tz      first argument  must  be a string  dt- gt setTimestamp  timestamp     adjust the object to correct timestamp echo  dt- gt format  d m Y  H i s      DateTime class is powerful  and to grasp all of its capabilities - you should devote some of your time reading about it at php net  To answer your question fully - yes  you can adjust the time zone parameter dynamically  on each iteration while reading from db  you can create a new DateTimeZone   object

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If I understood correct You need to set time zone first like   date default timezone set  UTC      And than you can use date function      Prints something like  Monday 8th of August 2005 03 12 46 PM echo date  l jS  of F Y h i s A

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The answer above caused me to jump through some hoops gotchas  so just posting the cleaner code that worked for me    dt   new DateTime     dt- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  America New York      dt- gt setTimestamp 123456789    echo  dt- gt format  F j  Y   G i

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Try this  You can pass either unix timestamp  or datetime string  public static function convertToTimezone  timestamp   fromTimezone   toTimezone   format  Y-m-d H i s                   datetime   is numeric  timestamp                        DateTime  createFromFormat   U     timestamp  new DateTimeZone  fromTimezone                         new DateTime  timestamp  new DateTimeZone  fromTimezone              datetime- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  toTimezone             return  datetime- gt format  format

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Use the DateTime class instead  as it supports timezones  The DateTime equivalent of date   is DateTime  format   An extremely helpful wrapper for DateTime is Carbon - definitely give it a look   You ll want to store in the database as UTC and convert on the application level

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U can just add  timezone difference to unix timestamp  Example for Moscow  UTC 3  echo date  d m Y H i s   time     3   60   60

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You can replace database value in date default timezone set function      date default timezone set SOME PHP VARIABLE   but just needs to take care of exact values relevant to the timezones

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I have created this very straightforward function  and it works like a charm   function ts2time  timestamp  timezone      input  1518404518 America Los Angeles                         date   new DateTime date  d F Y H i s   timestamp             date- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  timezone             rt  date- gt format  M d  Y h i s a       output  Feb 11  2018 7 01 58 pm            return  rt

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this works perfectly in 2019   date  Y-m-d H i s  strtotime  date       timezone

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It should like this   date default timezone set  America New York

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