Question

I know this might sound a silly question, but I did not find in PHP documentation somewhere were they state loud and clear this one.

I have got a web application.

Users of my web appliations are in Europe, but the server running the web appliation is in US.

How should I set the date.timezone php ini directive???

I suppose to where the server is located so if it’s in New York: date.timezone = “America/New_York”

But am I right?

Answer 1

According to what I read here around on SO the answers is:

1. set PHP date.timezone ini directive
   to “UTC” (i.e. 0)
2. let PHP print in pages the date time (UTC) as a simple Unix time stamp (a number)

3. let Javacscript transform the UTC Unix time stamp in client time by simply doing:

   new Date(<?php echo DATE_TIME_SERVER_UTC; ?> * 1000);