Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time.

From	bill <william@TechServSys.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time.
Date	2022-03-16 07:05 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 3/14/2022 11:18 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
That works.  Thank you very much.
-bill

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UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-14 10:20 -0400
  Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-03-14 15:10 +0000
    Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-15 12:39 -0400
      Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-03-15 16:46 +0000
        Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-16 07:06 -0400
  Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-03-14 16:18 +0100
    Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-16 07:05 -0400

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