UTC Date/Time String to Timezone

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amax picture amax · Apr 21, 2011 · Viewed 101.8k times · Source

How do I convert a date/time string (e.g. 2011-01-01 15:00:00) that is UTC to any given timezone php supports, such as America/New_York, or Europe/San_Marino.

Answer

Kevin Peno picture Kevin Peno · Apr 21, 2011

PHP's DateTime object is pretty flexible.

$UTC = new DateTimeZone("UTC");
$newTZ = new DateTimeZone("America/New_York");
$date = new DateTime( "2011-01-01 15:00:00", $UTC );
$date->setTimezone( $newTZ );
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

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