Setting timezone with PHP gmmktime()

[cwz7]

Hi

 

I am coding a website using PHP and would like to display the server time, but according to the timezone of the user. I would also like to keep a copy of the timestamp in the database.

 

Can someone advise?

 

Thank you!

[printf]

Quick example...

 

<?

// usage

// how many hours is the users time +13 <-- 0 --> -12 away from GMT

// ( 15 minutes as ( .25), half hours as ( .5 ), 45 minutes as ( .75 ) )

$user_offset = '-5'; // user is in New York Time

// output format (time display)

$format = 'l dS of F Y h:i:s A';

// time now (GMT) or a timestamp from your database

$time = time();

// run it

echo offset_time ( $time, $format, $user_offset );


function offset_time ( $time_stamp, $time_format, $time_offset )
{ 
return gmdate ( $time_format, $time_stamp + ( 3600 * $time_offset ) );
}

?>

[cwz7]

Thank you very much for your reply! Easy to understand and apply..