Posted by Mike Tuller on 10/15/65 11:36

I hate doing this, but you could use Javascript to use the date and time set
on the clients computer. You can't control how they have it set though.


On 1/5/06 1:13 PM, "Mark Steudel" <mark@netriver.net> wrote:

> Im just using it to set defaults on a QuickForm date element.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Tuller [mailto:php@discovercommunityed.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:02 AM
> To: Mark Steudel
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Timezone and DST
>
> Are you just displaying the time, or is this for submission in a database?
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Mark Steudel wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've got a little problem where our servers are in PST but the
>> customer operates in Hawaii (-10 GMT). I believe I can just get the
>> time for them by doing something like
>>
>> date("d H i", strtotime('now -2 hours') );
>>
>> But here's the catch, how should I deal with day light savings ( DST)
>> . In hawaii they don't observer DST, but in Washington State we do.
>>
>> We're on php 4.x so I can't use the date_default_timezone_set
>> <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-
>> set.php> that
>> was added in PHP 5
>>
>> Thanks, Mark
>>
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