Question

in my web application, user has to enter a time and select a date.so i want to save that time and date in globle time and date.when it get it should appear in user’s country time.so simply the requirement is to convert a string into globl time and globle date when saving and globle time and date convert into a string when retrieving.so please let me know if someone know the PHP functions for this.thank you!!!

Answer 1

PHP dates and times always work on server side.

Did you already consider to use the timestamp and the date_default_timezone_set() function to get the “global” datetime?

php > echo time();
1344236016
php > $timestamp=1344236016;
php > echo date('c',$timestamp);
2012-08-06T08:53:36+02:00
php > date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
php > echo date('c',$timestamp);
2012-08-06T06:53:36+00:00