note 84640 added to function.date-create

In case you have on server, which you don't administer, version of php < 5.2 and need timezone conversion similar to DateTime, you can use this : class DateUtils { public static function serverTime2ForeignTime($serverTimeStamp, $timezoneToTransferTo = "Europe/Prague") { // get local int representation of time $localTimestamp = strtotime($serverTimeStamp); // get far away places int representation of time $timezoneTimestamp = strtotime($serverTimeStamp . ' ' . $timezoneToTransferTo); // get difference of times $timezoneDifference = $timezoneTimestamp - $localTimestamp; // ammend local time to represent the same second as time in far away place return date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $localTimestamp - $timezoneDifference); } } //$timezoneToTransferTo should be in Olsen format. It passed our set of unit tests generated using DateTime + DateTimeZone (we use just 76 zones, but don't have a reason to think it wont work for all) ---- Server IP: 147.32.160.17 Probable Submitter: 212.111.12.164 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-create.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/84640 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84640 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/84640 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php