http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
has them all..then you can just assign your constants to them in a way that
makes sense to you


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Stump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Maggelet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] timezones


> Thanks to everyone who sent in the info. The problem is as follows:
>
> 1.) the mktime()'s are stored as PST in the DB.
> 2.) we have users ALL OVER the world - is there a place to find all of the
>     timezones at?
>
> --Joe
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Mark Maggelet wrote:
> > 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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