How to display time according to timezone in php?

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

date_default_timezone_get — Gets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script

Description

date_default_timezone_get(): string

• Reading the timezone set using the date_default_timezone_set() function (if any)

• Reading the value of the date.timezone ini option (if set)

If none of the above succeed, date_default_timezone_get() will return a default timezone of UTC.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns a string.

Examples

Example #1 Getting the default timezone

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

if (

The above example will output something similar to:

date_default_timezone_set: Europe/London
date.timezone: Europe/London

Example #2 Getting the abbreviation of a timezone

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date_default_timezone_get() . ' => ' . date('e') . ' => ' . date('T');
?>

The above example will output:

America/Los_Angeles => America/Los_Angeles => PST

See Also

• date_default_timezone_set() - Sets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
• List of Supported Timezones

date_timezone_set

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DateTime::setTimezone -- date_timezone_set — Sets the time zone for the DateTime object

Parameters

Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(). The function modifies this object.

A DateTimeZone object representing the desired time zone.

Return Values

Returns the DateTime object for method chaining. The underlaying point-in-time is not changed when calling this method.

Examples

Example #1 DateTime::setTimeZone() example

Object-oriented style

$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Chatham'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
?>

Procedural style

$date = date_create('2000-01-01', timezone_open('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";date_timezone_set($date, timezone_open('Pacific/Chatham'));
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
?>

The above examples will output:

2000-01-01 00:00:00+12:00
2000-01-01 01:45:00+13:45

See Also

• DateTimeImmutable::setTimezone() - Sets the time zone
• DateTime::getTimezone() - Return time zone relative to given DateTime
• DateTimeZone::__construct() - Creates new DateTimeZone object