converting a time to a different timezone with php

Question

$timeposted = "7:10pm";

This value is currently Canada time (quebec). I'm trying to find a way to convert it to France's time. How can i do that ?

Answer 1

Assuming that your PHP configuration is set to the Quebec time, you can convert it to France's timezone by doing the following:

$date = new DateTime('7:10pm', new DateTimeZone('Europe/Paris'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP');

Or, if your server is not set to the Quebec timezone you can:

$date = new DateTime('7:10pm', new DateTimeZone('America/Montreal'));

$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Paris'));

echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP');

which returns

2013-06-14 01:10:00+02:00 

You can read more about PHP and timezones here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.settimezone.php

Answer 2

Use the date_default_timezone_set() function of PHP.

If you want to change it to France you would use the

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

a list of Supported Timezones can be found here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

The functionality of date_default_timezone_set() can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php