Posted by M on 10/11/21 11:36

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
>

set TZ enviroment variable, it should point to a file containing
timezone information for Hawaii, for example:

putenv('TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Hawaii');

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