Question

I need to convert a specific date format into local time (Europe/Sarajevo), I have the time in this format 2013-02-17T15:00:00Z which I don’t really understand and this is why I don’t know how to convert it to the Europe/Sarajevo time, who knows maybe it is already Sarajevo time, I don’t know…

OK I can parse it and remove the T and Z and get a time but these letters mean something, probably they affect the result time…

The result time is for example 2013-02-17 18:00:00, probably there will be a difference due to the letters T and Z which are probably time offset.

Answer 1

Use DateTime. It’s much better for working with timezones:

$datetime = new DateTime('2013-02-17T15:00:00Z');
$datetime->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Sarajevo'));
echo $datetime->format('c');

Reference

• DateTime
• DateTimeZone

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