UTC Offset in PHP

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Adam Ernst picture Adam Ernst · Oct 11, 2008 · Viewed 63.7k times · Source

What's the easiest way to get the UTC offset in PHP, relative to the current (system) timezone?

Answer

Czimi picture Czimi · Oct 11, 2008 
  date('Z');

returns the UTC offset in seconds.

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