Re: Timezones and Daylight Savings Time

Hi, Friday, September 26, 2003, 2:55:51 AM, you wrote: JJ> Got a client site in Thailand that is about 13 hours JJ> different from the Web Server time so with any JJ> date/time stamping I need to add the 13 hours. JJ> However, when it comes time for DST, I'd hate to have JJ> to code for that or remember to manually change the JJ> time stamping. JJ> Is there some kind of automated function that JJ> determines the time zone of one location to another JJ> and stamps the correct time -- with or without DST? JJ> I guess otherwise you'd have to do something like: if >> Oct 31st and < April XX { time+12 } else { JJ> time+13 JJ> Obviously not the correct code but that's the idea. JJ> Am I off base here? Is there a simpler method or JJ> something I'm not thinking of? JJ> If the server was dedicated I would just fix the JJ> server time to be Thailand time, but it's a shared JJ> server and I can't do that. JJ> Thanks in advance! JJ> __________________________________ JJ> Do you Yahoo!? JJ> The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search JJ> http://shopping.yahoo.com You could put this at the top of each page putenv('TZ=Asia/Bangkok'); That will correct all PHP functions, not sure about database times though -- regards, Tom