On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:56:20 -0500, Joe Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>I have a quick question regarding timezones ...
>
>On the local side a record is inserted into the DB by someone in
>Michigan, while
>the server rests in CA. Thus a three hour difference. The local
>mktime() will
>create a timestamp for say 9:00am when in reality it was entered at
>12:00noon
>in MI. I have 2 character timezones for all my users so it should be
>easy to
>convert the two.
you could use gmmktime() instead and add or subtract the offset.
$offsets=array("
"PST"=>1000, // not actual values
"EST"=>-2000,
");
$localtime=gmmktime()+$offsets[$timezone];
>putenv() won't work because of the fact that the timestamp created
>will be
>9:00 no matter what timezone you put it in. So what needs to be done
>is some
>recognition that 10800 seconds needs to be added to adjust the PST
>timestamp
>to an EST timestamp. Are there any functions out ther that do this?
>
>--Joe
>
>Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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