Display Time in PST

Question

What is easiest way to display the current time in PST (West Coast) time using PHP?

Answer 1

Well, the easiest might be:

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date('Y-m-d');

Take a look at supported timezones to find one suitable for your needs.

Answer 2

Let's try a solution that uses PHP's modern date handling. This example requires PHP 5.2 or better.

// Right now it's about four minutes before 1 PM, PST.
$pst = new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles');
$three_hours_ago = new DateTime('-3 hours', $pst); // first argument uses strtotime parsing
echo $three_hours_ago->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // "2010-06-15 09:56:36"