timezones and time display

I have a very basic shell script that I would like to include on my
webpage, so I'd like to translate it to php:

#!/bin/sh
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 TZ=JST-9 date
LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 TZ=MET-1METDST date
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=PST3PDT date

In short, it displays the date and time for a region in that region's
language and default format.

I've been poking around php but I can't find where to set the equivalent
of TZ and LANG for the date() function...

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:19:31 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> CptDondo wrote:
>> I have a very basic shell script that I would like to include on my
>> webpage, so I'd like to translate it to php:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 TZ=JST-9 date
>> LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 TZ=MET-1METDST date
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=PST3PDT date
>>
>> In short, it displays the date and time for a region in that region's
>> language and default format.
>>
>> I've been poking around php but I can't find where to set the
>> equivalent of TZ and LANG for the date() function...
>>
>>
> These are set with the date.timezone PHP configuration parameter. The
> default is in your php.ini file; you can change it with ini_set(), i.e.
>
>


so...

ini_set('date.timezone', 'PST3PDT');
echo date();
ini_set('date.timezone', 'MET-1METDST');
echo date();

or would that make something blow a gasket?

What about
date_timezone_set()
I can't find any usage examples....

--Yan

CptDondo wrote:
> I have a very basic shell script that I would like to include on my
> webpage, so I'd like to translate it to php:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 TZ=JST-9 date
> LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 TZ=MET-1METDST date
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=PST3PDT date
>
> In short, it displays the date and time for a region in that region's
> language and default format.
>
> I've been poking around php but I can't find where to set the equivalent
> of TZ and LANG for the date() function...
>

These are set with the date.timezone PHP configuration parameter. The
default is in your php.ini file; you can change it with ini_set(), i.e.

ini_set('date.timezone', 'PST3PDT');

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CptDondo wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:19:31 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> CptDondo wrote:
>>> I have a very basic shell script that I would like to include on my
>>> webpage, so I'd like to translate it to php:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 TZ=JST-9 date
>>> LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 TZ=MET-1METDST date
>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=PST3PDT date
>>>
>>> In short, it displays the date and time for a region in that region's
>>> language and default format.
>>>
>>> I've been poking around php but I can't find where to set the
>>> equivalent of TZ and LANG for the date() function...
>>>
>>>
>> These are set with the date.timezone PHP configuration parameter. The
>> default is in your php.ini file; you can change it with ini_set(), i.e.
>>
>>
>
>
> so...
>
> ini_set('date.timezone', 'PST3PDT');
> echo date();
> ini_set('date.timezone', 'MET-1METDST');
> echo date();
>
> or would that make something blow a gasket?
>

It should work, although I've never tried it.

> What about
> date_timezone_set()
> I can't find any usage examples....
>
> --Yan
>

You can use date_default_timezone_set(), but that takes a different
argument, i.e. America/LosAngeles instead of PST3PDT (which I think
should be PST8PDT instead).

See the description in the manual for date_default_timezone_set; it has
a link to the appendix which lists the accepted timezones.

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Hi there, a couple of days ago I was looking for something similar to,
I'm using:

http://en.php.net/manual/en/function...fiers-list.php

You can check some examples posted on the comments there, it will help
you.