PHP Timezone Hack – Overriding server timezone
Sep, 1, 2008
Posted byUPDATE Nov 2010: Much shorter code over on my Tech Blog… PHP Local Time in your timezone
As is often the case I work on servers that are not in the same timezone as I am, or servers whose time is set to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). This PHP time hack below is something I came up with after several hours of googling and still not being able to display time on a website in whatever local timezone is desired using PHP. In this time I want a simple time output formatted like this:
09:45AM
This ‘time hack’ uses the PHP gmdate() so we are starting with GMT, and is not daylight savings time-proof. First check out what hour your server returns with this:
<?php
$mytime = gmdate(“h:iA”); // 9:45am will be displayed as 09:45AM
echo $mytime;
?>
Ok, so now you know what time your server is showing now, so adjust for your desired timezone. For example if the server shows 09:45AM and you want it to show 08:45PM then you will be adjusting 1 hour back. If you want it to display 10:45AM then you will be adjusting 1 hour ahead. If it shows what you want, then you are done.
Now use this to get the desired time:
<?php
## get 2 pieces of the time, the hour and the minute with AM/PM
$mytime1 = gmdate(“h”); // hour
$mytime2 = gmdate(“iA”); // minute + AM/PM## adjust the as needed
$mytime1 = $mytime1 – 4; // change subtraction to addition, if needed
// change 4 to whatever you need
if ($mytime1 < 10) {$mytime1 = “0″ . $mytime1;} // keep a leading zero if the hour is less than 10 (if you want to)
$mytime = $mytime1 . “:” . $mytime2;echo $mytime;
?>
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