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What's the easiest way to get the UTC offset in PHP, relative to the current (system) timezone?
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The default timezone for PHP is UTC regardless of your server's timezone. This is the timezone used by all PHP date/time functions in your scripts. To change the PHP timezone for an app, create a .user.ini file in the app's public directory with the following contents: date.timezone = America/Los_Angeles.
Definition and UsagegetTimezoneOffset() returns the difference between UTC time and local time. getTimezoneOffset() returns the difference in minutes. For example, if your time zone is GMT+2, -120 will be returned.
What is a "zone offset"? A zone offset is the difference in hours and minutes between a particular time zone and UTC. In ISO 8601, the particular zone offset can be indicated in a date or time value. The zone offset can be Z for UTC or it can be a value "+" or "-" from UTC.
date('Z');
returns the UTC offset in seconds.
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// will output something like +02:00 or -04:00
echo date('P');
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