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G.Thompson
G.Thompson

Reputation: 827

Unix time stamp and timezones

quick question. I'm working with the Instagram API and everything I'm getting from their response seems to be pacific timezone. Now, I'd like to save this data to a use and display it to visitors. Problem is, visitor may be from all different timezones. So should I convert this to unix timestamp to GMT, then on display, use some sort of javascript or PHP to convert the unix timestamp to a user friendly, timezone adjust date time?

If so, my two questions are... how would I convert a timestamp in PST timezone to GMT and the how would I display that to users from different timezones? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1384

Answers (2)

bzdzb
bzdzb

Reputation: 1

You can do this by using DateTime in php to calculate the offset that you will need to convert from one time zone to another. See http://blog.serverdensity.com/2009/03/21/handling-timezone-conversion-with-php-datetime/

Upvotes: 0

joe.dawley
joe.dawley

Reputation: 496

You can create a couple TimeZone objects and then create the DateTime object in the correct timezone the convert

$pdtTimezone = new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles');
$userTimeZone = new DateTimeZone(whatever_you_need);

$orig_date_obj = new DateTime( time_to_convert , $pdtTimezone) ;
$orig_date_obj->setTimeZone($usertimezone);

Upvotes: 2

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