RE: [PHP] time

If you have the timezone offset stored for each contact, you can compare that to the timezone offset of the server and do the math on a timestamp value. // return value format: hhmm // -0500 for US/EST, -5 hours relative to GMT $timeZoneOfServer = date("O"); > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Kurth [mailto:richardkurth@centurytel.net] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:12 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] time > > [snip] > I am writing a program for managing leads and contacts. I > would like to add > the ability to see what TIME it is where the contact is not > there server > time. So if you looked at a list of contacts from all over > the country you > would see different times compared to what time it is where > the user is at. > What should I be looking at to calculate out the different time zones. > Could > somebody just point me in the write direction at this time I > have no idea on > how to proceeded. > [/snip] > > You would use JavaScript to capture their local 'browser' > time and process > it with PHP > > I am not looking for something where I am on line with these > people some do > not have internet access. I would be calling them on the phone. > I need a way to get the time at there location using what > info I already > have like the address zip code and phone number. It would > probably have to > be compared to a database of some sort or the time zone file on a lynx > server. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >