Re: Time Zone names

On 7/13/05, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > I'd like to generate a list of time zones (EST, CDT, whatever) for a popup. > > Seems like it should be easy... > > This is so the Sales guy can just plug in the time and zone of who he's > gotta call back, and I stuff that in the database, and he gets a morning > report of who to call. > > <?php > for ($offset = 0; $offset <= 23; $offset++){ > $z = ???; > echo "<option>$z</option>\n"; > } > ?> > > What can I use for ??? to get the time zone name for offsets? > > The date() function tells me what time zone the webserver is in, which is > not even *HIS* time zone, much less the client's. > > The idate() function is not available. > > I can't just shove $offset into putenv("TZ=$offset") -- Apparently, in > order to set TZ I would need to know, a priori, the name of the time zone, > so that's not real helpful for what I need. > > I looked at all the User Contributed notes, and none seemed to answer it. > > I suppose I could Google for "PHP time zone" but... > > What am I missing? > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Richard, Take a look at wikipedia's timezone page. You could probably parse the table and get what you want. And it's GPL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/299/krauss_alison.php Krauss, Alison Song Lyrics