将PHP回显日期转换为客户端本地时间

Question

This is my first post. I have a problem that i can't seem to resolve. Here it goes:

I have a PHP script that prints the date of an event to the page:

$event_datetime = date("g:i A (m/d/y)", strtotime($row['event_time']));
echo $event_datetime

I want to use Javascript to convert that $event_datetime into client local timezone preferably or local client computer time.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

You can use php to convert all dates into a timezone with:

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');

For example:

$time = time();
$date = date(DATE_RFC822, $time);
echo $date . PHP_EOL;

date_default_timezone_set("Australia/Perth");
$date = date(DATE_RFC822, $time);
echo $date. PHP_EOL;

Output:

Mon, 19 Aug 13 18:49:40 +0000
Tue, 20 Aug 13 02:49:40 +0800

You would just need to get the clients timezone from somewhere (a preference saved in the database or getting it via javascript for example).

See Getting the client's timezone in JavaScript for using javascript