Adjusting time zone in PHP with DateTime / DateTimeZone

Question

There\'s a lot of info on doing time zone adjustments in PHP, but I haven\'t found an answer for specifically what I want to do due to all the noise.

Given a time in

Answer 1

As GZipp commented, his code is really only for PHP >= 5.3.0. That is fine, but - here's a version that will work in PHP >= 5.2.0. (Incidentally, it also works in 5.3+, and with 2 less function calls)

setTimezone(new DateTimezone($tz_to));
    return $dt->format($format);
}

$time_diffs = array('now', '-1 hour', '-1 day', '-1 week', '-1 month', '+1 hour', '+1 week', '+1 month');

foreach ($time_diffs as $diff)
{
 echo "{$diff}:"
  . "\n\t"
  . "Current: " . date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($diff))
  . "\n\t"
  . "UTC: " . time_translate("US/Eastern", "UTC", $diff)
  . "\n\n";
}