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Asked: 2026-05-30T11:44:28+00:00

I have a system running in PHP and am using CodeIgniter (if there is

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I have a system running in PHP and am using CodeIgniter (if there is a CI specific answer to this I would be happy as well).

I often need to figure out the timestamp of dates such as “this Thursday” or “this Monday”. I currently use strtotime("this Thursday") and it gives me what I ask for.

I have a server in EST. It is 01:00 (1:00am), early morning Friday, Feb 24, 2012 in New York.

I have a user who has specified his timezone to be Pacific time. Right now it is 22:00 (10pm) late evening Thursday Feb 23, 2012 in San Francisco.

I use strtotime("this Thursday"). Since my server is in EST, it returns me the timestamp for March 1, 2012. I would like to take the user’s timezone into consideration. For my user, “this Thursday” should return Feb 23, 2012.

Can I use strtotime("this Thursday") for it, and if so, how would I specify the target timezone?

If not, what approach would you suggest to getting the date for “this Thursday” in a specific timezone.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just figured out that strtotime takes a $now parameter. I can specify the $now param to be the current time in the user’s timezone and strtotime returns me what I need.

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