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Especific Time Zone by user - rmiguel - 03-05-2015
Hello,
Im trying to set an specific time zone by user. The point is that the specific time_zone is set in a controller
PHP Code:
ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/Santo_Domingo');
Even date_default_timezone_set is not working
PHP Code:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Santo_Domingo');
If time zone is set in the root index.php file of whole project, everything works fine
Thanks in advance,
Ruben
RE: Especific Time Zone by user - mwhitney - 03-05-2015
Usually, the best thing to do for something like this is to set the server's timezone in the index.php with date_default_timezone_set() (preferably to something like UTC, rather than the local time of wherever it happens to be hosted or you happen to be) and store any date/time data using that timezone. Then you can convert any times you've stored in the database to the user's timezone when you display them, using PHP's DateTime and DateTimeZone classes.
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.settimezone.php