DateTime class

[PaPPy]

can u take the format of chat, use that class, take the timezone value (-5, 0, 10 etc etc) and format the time stamp to work because aoen stores the time as 15:53:12 in the db)

i have time values of 15:53:12 and time zones of ppl store in our database as -5, 0, 10 etc etc

how do i use something to convert the time stamp into their time zone and respect daylight savings time?

right now i have 2 values for the palyers, their time zone and if the DST is making them one hour off

$mtime="15:53:12";
$getfirst2= substr($mtime, 0, 2); //chop hour
$timeoffset = "5";
$DST = "1";
$test2 = $getfirst2 + $timeoffset + $DST; //add hour to time value
$chopfirst2 = substr($mtime, 2);

if($test2 > 23){
$test3 = $test2 - 24;

$mtime =  "0" . $test3 . $chopfirst2;
}else{

$mtime = $test2 . $chopfirst2;
}

i want to be able to format on the fly the string into their timezone and apply DST if needed

thanks in advance

[johanafm]

$tarr = explode(':', $mtime);

$adjusted = mktime($tarr[0] + $timeoffset, $tarr[1], $tarr[2]);

echo date("format however you want", $adjusted);

[PaPPy]

and that adjusts for DST?

[johanafm]

assuming your variable $timeoffset holds the timezone offset, including daylights savings, then yes. Otherwise no.

[PaPPy]

It saves it as -5 or 10

that's it

[NogDog]

If you use [man]date_default_timezone_set/man with an appropriate timezone string, DST will be accounted for automatically.