note 70821 added to function.date

I had date/time stored in a database in GMT
and needed to display it according to the users timezone.
Including: daylight saving/summer time...

Finally found this:

<?php
putenv("TZ=Australia/Sydney");
$LocalTime = date('d M Y - h:i:s a O ',$GmtTime);
print "<p>$LocalTime in:".
getenv('TZ')."</p>";
?>

Outputs something like this:
31 Oct 2006 - 05:11:28 pm +1100 in:Australia/Sydney

Substitute Australia/Sydney with anything on the list here:
http://www.th
eprojects.org/dev/zone.txt

This may be obvious, but it took me ages to sort out.
Hope this helps someone.
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I had date/time stored in a database in GMT
and needed to display it according to the users timezone.
Including: daylight saving/summer time...

Finally found this:

<?php
putenv("TZ=Australia/Sydney");
$LocalTime = date('d M Y - h:i:s a O ',$GmtTime);
print "<p>$LocalTime in:".
getenv('TZ')."</p>";
?>

Outputs something like this:
31 Oct 2006 - 05:11:28 pm +1100 in:Australia/Sydney

Substitute Australia/Sydney with anything on the list here:
http://www.th
eprojects.org/dev/zone.txt

This may be obvious, but it took me ages to sort out.
Hope this helps someone.

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