RE: [PHP] Time Zone Variables

You'll have to get the timezone from the user manually (I couldn't see anything useful in the php variables from my browser...) A quick look at the date function in php revealed some code that may be of interest Convert Times between Timezones // First set the Timezone // (see the zoneinfo directory-tree on your System for a list // it is in /usr/share/zoneinfo on my System) putenv("TZ=Europe/Rome"); // Calculate the Timstamp relative to the Timezone $timestamp=mktime($hour,$minutes,$seconds,$month,$day,$year); // Show the time echo "Date ".date("d/m/Y H:i:s",$timestamp)." in ".getenv ("TZ")."\n"; // Now Change the Timezone putenv("TZ=Australia/Adelaide"); // Show the time echo "Date ".date("d/m/Y H:i:s",$timestamp)." in ".getenv ("TZ")."\n"; Cheers, Lawrence. -----Original Message----- From: techzeus@pacific.net.sg [mailto:techzeus@pacific.net.sg] Sent: December 1, 2000 05:24 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Time Zone Variables How do you think I can go about doing that? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lynch" <richard@zend.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Time Zone Variables > Not really. > > The browser does not, by default tell the web-server what their time-zone or > anything like that is. > > You can use Javascript on a preceding page to send the current time on their > computer's clock, and if you are willing to rely on (A) Javascript and (B) > user's clocks, it can work for most users, but not all. > > Some sites ask you your time zone when you register, and store that -- Of > course, if the person travels, that's rather useless. > > You might be best off just showing everything in GMT and let the user deal > with it. Mucking with time zones is generally far more trouble than it > looks like at first. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <techzeus@pacific.net.sg> > Newsgroups: php.general > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 3:43 AM > Subject: [PHP] Time Zone Variables > > > Hi there, > > Is there a variable that can determine the user's timezone? > > I want to make a script to convert news postings to the person's time in > that timezone. > > > David Chua, > CEO, Frozened.com > PAGN.NET > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net