note 70821 added to function.date

I had date/time stored in a database in GMT and needed to display it according to the users timezone. Including: daylight saving/summer time... Finally found this: <?php putenv("TZ=Australia/Sydney"); $LocalTime = date('d M Y - h:i:s a O ',$GmtTime); print "<p>$LocalTime in:". getenv('TZ')."</p>"; ?> Outputs something like this: 31 Oct 2006 - 05:11:28 pm +1100 in:Australia/Sydney Substitute Australia/Sydney with anything on the list here: http://www.theprojects.org/dev/zone.txt This may be obvious, but it took me ages to sort out. Hope this helps someone. ---- Server IP: 203.220.0.234 Probable Submitter: 210.10.221.245 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/70821 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70821 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/70821 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php