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From: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
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Subject: Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time.
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:18:52 +0100
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On 14/03/2022 15.20, bill wrote:
> I have a UTC time and I need to display it as local time (always US 
> Eastern time).
> 
> I could check to see if we are now in standard or daylight time and then 
> add the appropriate number of hours, but it seems there should be an 
> easier way with php automagically doing the proper conversion.
> 
> Any suggestions?

something like this?

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
utc_datetime = '2008-08-03 12:35:23';
$datetime = new DateTime(utc_datetime);
$ny_time = new DateTimeZone('America/New_York');
$datetime->setTimezone($ny_time);
echo $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

You have also possibility to use javascript in the UI, then you could 
quite simply get to the users local time without having a config.


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  //Aho