note 63233 added to function.strtotime

I'm not sure whether I've overcomplicated this example, but here is my shot at the perfect timezone class. Upon construction, it takes the users timezone (perhaps a setting pulled from a database or session) and the timezone in which the server is located, and the MySQL datetime to be localized. So, for example, if you make a news post to your website at 11:30AM in EST (-5), and a user which is located on the west coast of the US (PST -8) views your website the post time will be displayed in THEIR time (8:30AM). The date() format can be customized as a second parameter of the convert function. Works with any standard timezone. Hopefully, this will save somebody time in the future. <?php class timezone { var $user_offset; // users timezone location var $default_offset = -6; // default server timezone location, in this case, US Central Time (-6) var $difference; var $datetime; function timezone($user_offset, $default_offset = NULL) { $this->user_offset = $user_offset; if(isset($default_offset)) $this->default_offset = $default_offset; $this->difference = ($this->user_offset - $this->default_offset); // determine the difference between the users timezone and the servers } function convert($datetime, $format = 'M j, Y \a\t g:iA') { $this->difference = (($this->difference >= 0) ? '+' : '') . $this->difference; // add a + in front of the difference if positive if(eregi('.5', $this->difference)) $difference = substr_replace($this->difference, '', -2, 2) . ' hours +30 minutes'; // account for a timezone with .5 in it else $difference = $this->difference . ' hours'; $this->datetime = strtotime($datetime); $timestamp = strtotime($difference, $this->datetime); return date($format, $timestamp); } } /* All possible timezones that will work with this class: array(-12, -11, -10, -9, -8, -7, -6, -5, -4, -3.5, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9.5, 10, 11, 12); */ $users_timezone = 1; // could be stored in a database or $_SESSION $date = '2006-03-16 06:16:33'; // a date/time in US Central Time (CT -6) $timezone = new timezone($users_timezone); // create an instance of class timezone print $timezone->convert($date); // returns "Mar 16, 2006 at 1:16PM" to somebody in Paris ?> ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 69.171.56.90 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63233 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63233 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63233 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php