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Reputation: 588

PHP convert date from EEST to UTC returns incorrect time by one hour

My PHP is converting the date incorrectly, the answer is off by one hour, I think the problem is that PHP thinks Europe/Vilnius is EEST time at this time, which should mean UTC+3, but its actually UTC+2 at this time. Any help how to solve this would be much appreciated. Have a great day!

My code: 

$timezone = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Vilnius');
$UTCtimezone = new DateTimeZone('UTC');
$UTC_time = new DateTime($raw_date, $timezone); --> $raw_date is '2020-04-18 13:48:22'

At this time the date reads = 2020-04-18 13:50:05 EEST which is correct except for the EEST bit.

$UTC_time->setTimezone($UTCtimezone);

At this time date reads 2020-04-18 10:50:05 UTC which is incorrect now, because UTC time now should be 2020-04-18 11:50:05

Lots of karma points to anyone with any suggestions!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 688

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 56

Europe/Vilnius is using EET (Eastern European Time) right now (2020-03-19), which is UTC+2. On 2020-03-29 Europe/Vilnius will change to Daylight Saving Time EEST (Eastern European Summer Time), which is UTC+3. Your example date 2020-04-18 is after that change, so it'll be 3 hours ahead of UTC. Try todays date and the same code should show a 2 hour difference between Europe/Vilnius and UTC.

Upvotes: 4

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