Timezones

[mentalist]

What is the best method for managing timezones?

 

Is there a PHP function for retrieving a list of? or should I build a list from the data contained in this download ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2014b.tar.gz from this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

 

On php.net I only seem to be able to find how to list the regions and countries but not the offsets, e.g.

 

$timezone_identifiers = DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers();

for ($i=0; $i < 5; $i++) {

    echo "$timezone_identifiers[$i]\n";

}

 

Many thanks

[maxxd]

http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetimezone.php

 

That's not to say it's easy to deal with time zones - in my experience, it's kind of a massive pain in the butt. However, using DateTime and DateTimezone objects does make it a better experience.

[mentalist]

 

http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetimezone.php

 

That's not to say it's easy to deal with time zones - in my experience, it's kind of a massive pain in the butt. However, using DateTime and DateTimezone objects does make it a better experience.

 

 

I was going cyclic looking through that part of the manual, really wasn't too much help.

 

But just found this and is the first example I've tried which didn't produce exceptions

 

http://www.pontikis.net/tip/?id=24

 

 

Thanks