RE: [PHP] timezone problem

hi miguel i'm testing on a windows so not sure where the timezone info would be but what you are saying that if i port my app to a unix box then it would be easy to just add the missing timezones in /usr/share/zoneinfo, right? if that's the case then i could just test with pacific, eastern and mountain time for now. also, do you know if i store all my dates as GMT then when i convert to different timezones using putenv, will this take into account the daylight savings? -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:mnc@stoic.net] Sent: May 20, 2002 1:27 PM To: SP Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] timezone problem I think these are system-specific. You'll probably have to check which time zone your machine understands. For instance, on this FreeBSD machine there are hundreds of them in /usr/share/zoneinfo but on other machines there are only a handful. In short, I believe it's an OS rather than a PHP thing. miguel On Mon, 20 May 2002, SP wrote: > I am trying to convert date/times to different > timezones using putenv but I am having problems > using the right TZ names. I am trying the zones I > found here > http://fuck.org/~ryan/squirrel/timezone/timezones. > php but it seems the only ones that work are > EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT and GMT. > > OUTPUT > ======= > > May 20 2002 10:46 am Eastern Standard Time > May 20 2002 3:46 pm Ame > May 20 2002 3:46 pm Ame > May 20 2002 10:46 am EST > May 20 2002 2:46 pm GMT > May 20 2002 3:46 pm Eur > May 20 2002 3:46 pm Asi > > CODE > ===== > > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > putenv("TZ=America/Los_Angeles"); > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > putenv("TZ=America/New_York"); > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > putenv("TZ=EST5EDT"); > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > putenv("TZ=GMT"); > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > putenv("TZ=Europe/Paris"); > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > putenv("TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong"); > echo date("F j Y g:i a T"), "<br>"; > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system > (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release > Date: 07/05/02 > > > --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07/05/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07/05/02