Hi,
This might help someone with timezone differences. I wanted to find the offset in seconds between my timezone and a remote timezone so I wrote this function and it seems to work well for me.
<?php/** Returns the offset from the origin timezone to the remote timezone, in seconds.
* @param $remote_tz;
* @param $origin_tz; If null the servers current timezone is used as the origin.
* @return int;
*/function get_timezone_offset($remote_tz, $origin_tz = null) {
if($origin_tz === null) {
if(!is_string($origin_tz = date_default_timezone_get())) {
return false; // A UTC timestamp was returned -- bail out!
}
}
$origin_dtz = new DateTimeZone($origin_tz);
$remote_dtz = new DateTimeZone($remote_tz);
$origin_dt = new DateTime("now", $origin_dtz);
$remote_dt = new DateTime("now", $remote_dtz);
$offset = $origin_dtz->getOffset($origin_dt) - $remote_dtz->getOffset($remote_dt);
return $offset;
}?>Examples:
<?php// This will return 10800 (3 hours) ...$offset = get_timezone_offset('America/Los_Angeles','America/New_York');// or, if your server time is already set to 'America/New_York'...$offset = get_timezone_offset('America/Los_Angeles');// You can then take $offset and adjust your timestamp.$offset_time = time() + $offset;?>
Happy Coding!!
http://php.net/manual/en/function.timezone-offset-get.php
