Re: timezones

Thanks to everyone who sent in the info. The problem is as follows: 1.) the mktime()'s are stored as PST in the DB. 2.) we have users ALL OVER the world - is there a place to find all of the timezones at? --Joe On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Mark Maggelet wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:56:20 -0500, Joe Stump (joe@joestump.org) > wrote: > >I have a quick question regarding timezones ... > > > >On the local side a record is inserted into the DB by someone in > >Michigan, while > >the server rests in CA. Thus a three hour difference. The local > >mktime() will > >create a timestamp for say 9:00am when in reality it was entered at > >12:00noon > >in MI. I have 2 character timezones for all my users so it should be > >easy to > >convert the two. > > you could use gmmktime() instead and add or subtract the offset. > > $offsets=array(" > "PST"=>1000, // not actual values > "EST"=>-2000, > "); > > $localtime=gmmktime()+$offsets[$timezone]; > > >putenv() won't work because of the fact that the timestamp created > >will be > >9:00 no matter what timezone you put it in. So what needs to be done > >is some > >recognition that 10800 seconds needs to be added to adjust the PST > >timestamp > >to an EST timestamp. Are there any functions out ther that do this? > > > >--Joe > > > >Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >--- > >One is taught by experience to put a premium on those > >few people who can appreciate you for what you are. > > > > > >-- > >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 > Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dyslexics of the world