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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T20:15:52+00:00 2026-05-26T20:15:52+00:00

I have the following code… $stored_date = date_format(date_create(‘now’), ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’); echo ‘Stored date: ‘

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I have the following code…

    $stored_date = date_format(date_create('now'), 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
    echo 'Stored date: ' . $stored_date . "<br/>";

    $user_timezone = 'Australia/Brisbane';

I would like to convert $stored_date (which was created based on the server’s timezone to a date or a string representation of the date based on $user_timezone.

I would like to do that using procedural PHP code rather than OO code.

I have tried..

   date_create($stored_date, timezone_open($user_timezone));

but that doesn’t seem to to give a correct answer.

if $stored_date is '2011-11-15 23:45:35' with the server’s timezone being ‘America/Toronto’ the result I’m getting is the same ‘2011-11-15 23:45:35’.

however, date_create('now', timezone_open($user_timezone)); seems to work and give the correct date as per the $user_timezone.

any ideas on what i’m doing wrong?

thanks

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    2026-05-26T20:15:53+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    you should try this. this had been worked for me.

    $time = date_format(date_create('now'), 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
    $tz = "Australia/Brisbane";
    
    // create the DateTimeZone object for later
    $dtzone = new DateTimeZone($tz);
    // now create the DateTime object for this time and user time zone
    $dtime = new DateTime($time,$dtzone);
    // print the timestamp
    $timestamp = $dtime->format('U');
    
    //ultimate time according to timezone you have specified              
    $time_final = gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s",$timestamp); 
    

    hope this will help you.

    here is the list of PHP timezones:

                'Kwajalein' => '(GMT-12:00) International Date Line West',
        'Pacific/Midway' => '(GMT-11:00) Midway Island',
        'Pacific/Samoa' => '(GMT-11:00) Samoa',
        'Pacific/Honolulu' => '(GMT-10:00) Hawaii',
        'America/Anchorage' => '(GMT-09:00) Alaska',
        'America/Los_Angeles' => '(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US &amp; Canada)',
        'America/Tijuana' => '(GMT-08:00) Tijuana, Baja California',
        'America/Denver' => '(GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US &amp; Canada)',
        'America/Chihuahua' => '(GMT-07:00) Chihuahua',
        'America/Mazatlan' => '(GMT-07:00) Mazatlan',
        'America/Phoenix' => '(GMT-07:00) Arizona',
        'America/Regina' => '(GMT-06:00) Saskatchewan',
        'America/Tegucigalpa' => '(GMT-06:00) Central America',
        'America/Chicago' => '(GMT-06:00) Central Time (US &amp; Canada)',
        'America/Mexico_City' => '(GMT-06:00) Mexico City',
        'America/Monterrey' => '(GMT-06:00) Monterrey',
        'America/New_York' => '(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)',
        'America/Bogota' => '(GMT-05:00) Bogota',
        'America/Lima' => '(GMT-05:00) Lima',
        'America/Rio_Branco' => '(GMT-05:00) Rio Branco',
        'America/Indiana/Indianapolis' => '(GMT-05:00) Indiana (East)',
        'America/Caracas' => '(GMT-04:30) Caracas',
        'America/Halifax' => '(GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)',
        'America/Manaus' => '(GMT-04:00) Manaus',
        'America/Santiago' => '(GMT-04:00) Santiago',
        'America/La_Paz' => '(GMT-04:00) La Paz',
        'America/St_Johns' => '(GMT-03:30) Newfoundland',
        'America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires' => '(GMT-03:00) Georgetown',
        'America/Sao_Paulo' => '(GMT-03:00) Brasilia',
        'America/Godthab' => '(GMT-03:00) Greenland',
        'America/Montevideo' => '(GMT-03:00) Montevideo',
        'Atlantic/South_Georgia' => '(GMT-02:00) Mid-Atlantic',
        'Atlantic/Azores' => '(GMT-01:00) Azores',
        'Atlantic/Cape_Verde' => '(GMT-01:00) Cape Verde Is.',
        'Europe/Dublin' => '(GMT) Dublin',
        'Europe/Lisbon' => '(GMT) Lisbon',
        'Europe/London' => '(GMT) London',
        'Africa/Monrovia' => '(GMT) Monrovia',
        'Atlantic/Reykjavik' => '(GMT) Reykjavik',
        'Africa/Casablanca' => '(GMT) Casablanca',
        'Europe/Belgrade' => '(GMT+01:00) Belgrade',
        'Europe/Bratislava' => '(GMT+01:00) Bratislava',
        'Europe/Budapest' => '(GMT+01:00) Budapest',
        'Europe/Ljubljana' => '(GMT+01:00) Ljubljana',
        'Europe/Prague' => '(GMT+01:00) Prague',
        'Europe/Sarajevo' => '(GMT+01:00) Sarajevo',
        'Europe/Skopje' => '(GMT+01:00) Skopje',
        'Europe/Warsaw' => '(GMT+01:00) Warsaw',
        'Europe/Zagreb' => '(GMT+01:00) Zagreb',
        'Europe/Brussels' => '(GMT+01:00) Brussels',
        'Europe/Copenhagen' => '(GMT+01:00) Copenhagen',
        'Europe/Madrid' => '(GMT+01:00) Madrid',
        'Europe/Paris' => '(GMT+01:00) Paris',
        'Africa/Algiers' => '(GMT+01:00) West Central Africa',
        'Europe/Amsterdam' => '(GMT+01:00) Amsterdam',
        'Europe/Berlin' => '(GMT+01:00) Berlin',
        'Europe/Rome' => '(GMT+01:00) Rome',
        'Europe/Stockholm' => '(GMT+01:00) Stockholm',
        'Europe/Vienna' => '(GMT+01:00) Vienna',
        'Europe/Minsk' => '(GMT+02:00) Minsk',
        'Africa/Cairo' => '(GMT+02:00) Cairo',
        'Europe/Helsinki' => '(GMT+02:00) Helsinki',
        'Europe/Riga' => '(GMT+02:00) Riga',
        'Europe/Sofia' => '(GMT+02:00) Sofia',
        'Europe/Tallinn' => '(GMT+02:00) Tallinn',
        'Europe/Vilnius' => '(GMT+02:00) Vilnius',
        'Europe/Athens' => '(GMT+02:00) Athens',
        'Europe/Bucharest' => '(GMT+02:00) Bucharest',
        'Europe/Istanbul' => '(GMT+02:00) Istanbul',
        'Asia/Jerusalem' => '(GMT+02:00) Jerusalem',
        'Asia/Amman' => '(GMT+02:00) Amman',
        'Asia/Beirut' => '(GMT+02:00) Beirut',
        'Africa/Windhoek' => '(GMT+02:00) Windhoek',
        'Africa/Harare' => '(GMT+02:00) Harare',
        'Asia/Kuwait' => '(GMT+03:00) Kuwait',
        'Asia/Riyadh' => '(GMT+03:00) Riyadh',
        'Asia/Baghdad' => '(GMT+03:00) Baghdad',
        'Africa/Nairobi' => '(GMT+03:00) Nairobi',
        'Asia/Tbilisi' => '(GMT+03:00) Tbilisi',
        'Europe/Moscow' => '(GMT+03:00) Moscow',
        'Europe/Volgograd' => '(GMT+03:00) Volgograd',
        'Asia/Tehran' => '(GMT+03:30) Tehran',
        'Asia/Muscat' => '(GMT+04:00) Muscat',
        'Asia/Baku' => '(GMT+04:00) Baku',
        'Asia/Yerevan' => '(GMT+04:00) Yerevan',
        'Asia/Yekaterinburg' => '(GMT+05:00) Ekaterinburg',
        'Asia/Karachi' => '(GMT+05:00) Karachi',
        'Asia/Tashkent' => '(GMT+05:00) Tashkent',
        'Asia/Kolkata' => '(GMT+05:30) Calcutta',
        'Asia/Colombo' => '(GMT+05:30) Sri Jayawardenepura',
        'Asia/Katmandu' => '(GMT+05:45) Kathmandu',
        'Asia/Dhaka' => '(GMT+06:00) Dhaka',
        'Asia/Almaty' => '(GMT+06:00) Almaty',
        'Asia/Novosibirsk' => '(GMT+06:00) Novosibirsk',
        'Asia/Rangoon' => '(GMT+06:30) Yangon (Rangoon)',
        'Asia/Krasnoyarsk' => '(GMT+07:00) Krasnoyarsk',
        'Asia/Bangkok' => '(GMT+07:00) Bangkok',
        'Asia/Jakarta' => '(GMT+07:00) Jakarta',
        'Asia/Brunei' => '(GMT+08:00) Beijing',
        'Asia/Chongqing' => '(GMT+08:00) Chongqing',
        'Asia/Hong_Kong' => '(GMT+08:00) Hong Kong',
        'Asia/Urumqi' => '(GMT+08:00) Urumqi',
        'Asia/Irkutsk' => '(GMT+08:00) Irkutsk',
        'Asia/Ulaanbaatar' => '(GMT+08:00) Ulaan Bataar',
        'Asia/Kuala_Lumpur' => '(GMT+08:00) Kuala Lumpur',
        'Asia/Singapore' => '(GMT+08:00) Singapore',
        'Asia/Taipei' => '(GMT+08:00) Taipei',
        'Australia/Perth' => '(GMT+08:00) Perth',
        'Asia/Seoul' => '(GMT+09:00) Seoul',
        'Asia/Tokyo' => '(GMT+09:00) Tokyo',
        'Asia/Yakutsk' => '(GMT+09:00) Yakutsk',
        'Australia/Darwin' => '(GMT+09:30) Darwin',
        'Australia/Adelaide' => '(GMT+09:30) Adelaide',
        'Australia/Canberra' => '(GMT+10:00) Canberra',
        'Australia/Melbourne' => '(GMT+10:00) Melbourne',
        'Australia/Sydney' => '(GMT+10:00) Sydney',
        'Australia/Brisbane' => '(GMT+10:00) Brisbane',
        'Australia/Hobart' => '(GMT+10:00) Hobart',
        'Asia/Vladivostok' => '(GMT+10:00) Vladivostok',
        'Pacific/Guam' => '(GMT+10:00) Guam',
        'Pacific/Port_Moresby' => '(GMT+10:00) Port Moresby',
        'Asia/Magadan' => '(GMT+11:00) Magadan',
        'Pacific/Fiji' => '(GMT+12:00) Fiji',
        'Asia/Kamchatka' => '(GMT+12:00) Kamchatka',
        'Pacific/Auckland' => '(GMT+12:00) Auckland',
        'Pacific/Tongatapu' => '(GMT+13:00) Nukualofa'
    
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