How to convert between time zones in PHP using the DateTime class?

Question

I am trying to convert time between current time to UTC and UTC to current time zone.

Here is what I have done:

$schedule_date = new DateTime($trigge         


        

Answer 1

You are consuming the date/time and setting the time zone correctly, however before formatting the datetime, you are not setting the desired output timezone. Here is an example which accepts a UTC time zone, and converts the date/time to the America/Los_Angeles time zone:

setTimeZone($target_timezone);

// Outputs a date/time string based on the time zone you've set on the object.
$triggerOn = $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

// Print the date/time string.
print $triggerOn; // 2013-04-01 08:08:00