How to get Unix timestamp in php based on timezone

Question

Code first

    echo time() . \'
\';
echo date(\'Y-m-d H:i:s\') . \'
\';
date_default_timezone_set(\'America/New_York\'); 

echo time() .         


        

Answer 1

Had the same issue myself, and this is the easiest approach I could do fairly quickly.

$dateTimeZone = new DateTimeZone("America/New_York");
$dateTime = new DateTime("now", $dateTimeZone);
$timeOffset = $dateTimeZone->getOffset($dateTime);

// New time since epoch according to timezone
$newTime = time() + $timeOffset;

echo date("H:i:s", $newTime);