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| 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 07:06 -0400 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <t0sgb9$1efu$2@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
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On 3/15/2022 12:46 PM, Lew Pitcher wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:39:01 -0400, bill wrote: > >> On 3/14/2022 11:10 AM, Lew Pitcher wrote: >>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:20:01 -0400, 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? >>> >>> One possibility (which may be overkill for you; you decide) would >>> be to change the "date.timezone" value in php.ini to name EST5EDT >>> rather than the default UTC >>> [Date] >>> ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions >>> ; http://php.net/date.timezone >>> date.timezone = EST5EDT ; override UTC default >>> >>> From there, you can use the php date functions, and they will >>> reflect EST5EDT dates and times >>> >>> HTH >>> >> I wasn't clear enough: I have a variable (from an ical string) >> containing the appointment date/time as UTC. In order to display >> this I need to convert it to local (12 hr) time. >> Thanks bill > > Then, J Aho's advice is what you want. See his response upthread. > I did that, thanks. -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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