php date/time zone

php date/time zone

am 19.03.2009 05:57:44 von ron

Hi All,

I have a form where in a user will enter a time and choose a timezone.

based on those, i need to insert to db the time as the actual time on
their timezone. how can i compute that on php? is it possible?

hope i'm not confusing. tnx

regards
Ron

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Re: php date/time zone

am 19.03.2009 06:16:55 von dmagick

Ron wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a form where in a user will enter a time and choose a timezone.
>
> based on those, i need to insert to db the time as the actual time on
> their timezone. how can i compute that on php? is it possible?

You should do this the other way.

Store everything in GMT, then change it on the way out.

Mainly for 2 reasons
- changing the timezone again would mean updating their old records
(possibly).
- daylight savings time (you'll have to adjust it anyway)

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