[SOLVED] show time in local time

[soycharliente]

I tried searching for the answer, but didn't really get anything back. Maybe it's the terminology I was using.

 

Can anyone help me in a direction for how to change what time zone a time is displayed for? My timestamps default to California and would like to show them as EST.

 

Or even show the time in whatever time zone the person viewing the time is in. Does that sentence make sense?

[trq]

Or even show the time in whatever time zone the person viewing the time is in

 

Easiest way to do that is use javascript. It uses the time on the client.

[soycharliente]

Is it possible in PHP?

[trq]

Take a look at date_default_timezone_set.

[soycharliente]

I'm getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: date_default_timezone_set() in /index.php on line 4

 

For this code:

date_default_timezone_set(date_default_timezone_get());

 

I thought it was a built-in function.

 

 

EDIT: OOOH! PHP 5.0+ DOH! So what can I do with PHP 4.3.11?

[marcus]

It's for PHP5+

[soycharliente]

Made an edit, maybe it got skipped.

So what can I do with PHP 4.3.11?

 

I found this, but it doesn't seem to work very well. It's giving me a date from like 14 hours ago.

<?php
$record = file("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=". $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."&position=true");
$longitude = substr($record[3], 11);
$offset = $longitude / 15;
$true_local_time = gmmktime() + ($offset * 3600); 
//return $true_local_time;
echo date('M j Y, H:m:s', $true_local_time);
?>

 

That came from this page: http://www.expertsrt.com/tutorials/Matt/PHPTimeZone.html

[per1os]

Are you sure that data is pulling correctly from the remote site.

 

Do a vardump on $record.

[soycharliente]

Country: UNITED STATES (US)

City: Atlanta, GA

Latitude: 33.7629

Longitude: -84.4226

[soycharliente]

I just won't do it. Nevermind. Seems like too much work.