[SOLVED] getting date in different time zone

[hchsk]

how can i get the date() function to return a time in a different time zone, in this case EDT, America/New_York

 

date_default_timezone_set('EDT');
$nowpub = date("D, j M Y g:i:s");

 

DateTimeZone('America/New_York');
$nowpub = date("D, j M Y g:i:s");

 

both of these fail. any ideas/help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

i do not have access to .ini this must be accomplished within a script

[Ken2k7]

Try strftime().

[hchsk]

still seems to return in the wrong time zone, now -3 hours

[PFMaBiSmAd]

What php version? What is the current code? strftime() does not take into account the time zone, only language settings, you must still set the time zone before using it. And DateTimeZone is a an class, you don't just call it like a function.

[Ken2k7]

Sorry, I meant gmstrftime() with setlocale My apologies.

[hchsk]

PHP Version 5.2.6

 

maybe i was confused about strftime use, i will try again, when i looked at the manual i though (wrongly i suppose) that you needed to identify the language settings, not the time zones, haha, and even that only if you wanted to display a textual representation of the month or day

[hchsk]

i just tried this, still to no avail. am i making a mistake?

 

 

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'NY_2');
print strftime("%H");

 

i think my NY_2 may be incorrect, i am unsure of where to find the correct value for my locale (ny ny)

[hchsk]

ah, sorry, i missed your reply, but i'm still not quite getting it somehow, im now getting a value way off, hours plus 4 and date plus twenty, i dont understand that at all. i think the problem is my setlocale(), ive looked at the links you posted but still dont seem to understand what value i need for EDT, US east, or nyc

[Ken2k7]

I know what you're trying to do, but may I ask what you're using this for?

 

Are you trying to set it to your own timezone or to a client's timezone?

[hchsk]

im using it to set the value of a $var, in format equivalent to date("D, j M Y g:i:s"); which will be used to post as the pubDate on an RSS item.

 

theres actually another problem there, but one that i can live with not solving, which is when i post a date in proper format EDT, rss changes the time zone to AM. i don't know why, but it would seem to be only in its display, it does not change the actual value, so i can live with it, because its only really crucial when i grab the value with XPATH externally for use in a dynamic script.

[hchsk]

is there a way to insert javascript into php, that i could use to generate the date and pass it to the php? it needs to be done at that point in the script though

[hchsk]

i found a way to do it, by using the time() unix epoch and modifying the result as necessary, in my case, like this:

 

 

$ltime = time() + 3*60*60 ;
$mytime = date('D, j M Y g:i:s',$ltime);
echo $mytime;