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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 07:06 -0400
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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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