应用时间偏移量来获取当前时间

Question

My server has 5 hours difference from my current location time. After I record an event I'd like to display current local time. My time is stored in db as DATETIME value (0000:00:00 00:00:00).

I can get offset time in seconds with PHP like this:

$offset = date('Z');

So, the time from db will be:

$time = '2016-03-31 01:40:13';

But if my time is offset by -18000 sec, i.e. -5 hrs, the display time should be

2016-03-30 20:40:13

So I've attempted:

echo date('Y:m:d H:i:s', mktime(strtotime($time + $offset)));

But it looks convoluted...

Answer 1

setlocale(LC_TIME,'YOUR_LOCALE'); for strftime formatting

AND

date_default_timezone_set('YOUR_TIMEZONE'); for timezone settings