Change Time based on timezone

[refiking]

I have the timezone of each user stored in the 'zone' column of the 'users' table.  How can I use that to change the time to fit them?  Here's what I currently use:

 

PRINT date("l, d M Y h:i A")

[cooldude832]

when the user logs in set that in their session data,

i like to do all my users data lilke

<?php
$_SESSION['UserData']['Username'] = "cooldude";
$_SESSION['UserData']['Timezone'] = "GMT";
?>

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date-timezone-set.php

then on each load you can do

<?php
date_timezone_set($_SESSION['UserData']['Timezone']);
?>

 

and your all set

 

[refiking]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: date_timezone_set()

 

Here is my code:

 

<?php
include 'cont.php';
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT zone from users where user = '$username'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)) {
$zone = $row['zone'];
}
$_SESSION['UserData']['Timezone'] = $zone;
date_timezone_set($_SESSION['UserData']['Timezone']);
?>

[cooldude832]

thats cause your on a php 4 server

 

 

there is no simple way, but this was on php.net

 

http://drakecms.sourceforge.net/index.php?option=content&id=32&Itemid=10

[refiking]

Isn't there a way that I can change the hour to +5 or something? If I can do that, I can just throw a few if statements in there and it'll be good to go.

[The Little Guy]

the best way would be to use JavaScript I think but...

 

 

<?php
// This is for Central Standard Time
ini_set('date.timezone','America/Chicago');
echo '<p>'.date("g:i A").'</p>';
?>

 

List of other time zones