Setting Default Time Zone

[treeleaf20]

If I know what timezone all of my users are in, is there a way to set that so when I use a date or time function it uses the East Coast time and not the server time which is in the Mountain Time Zone?

Thanks in advance.

[samudasu]

I've never tried it before but you could set a session variable to register each user to a particular time zone. You could then use the date and mktime functions along with the timezone session variable to format the correct time. I haven't tested it but something like this.

<?php
// session value depends on which timezone user is registered.
// since i'm on the West coast i'm saying west coast = 0,  east coast = 3
session_start();
$_SESSION['timezone'] = 0; // West coast

$tstamp = mktime((date('H') + $_SESSION['timezone']), date('i'), date('s'), 0, 0, 0); 
print $date('H:i:s a', $tstamp);

?>

or maybe this

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['timezone'] = 0;
$tstamp = time() + (($_SESSION['timezone'] * 60) * 60);
print $date('H:i:s a', $tstamp);
?>