Get current date, given a timezone in PHP?

Question

I want to get todays date given a time zone in Paul Eggert format(America/New_York) in PHP?

Answer 1

I have created some simple function you can use to convert time to any timezone :

function convertTimeToLocal($datetime,$timezone='Europe/Dublin') {
        $given = new DateTime($datetime, new DateTimeZone("UTC"));
        $given->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone($timezone));
        $output = $given->format("Y-m-d"); //can change as per your requirement
        return $output;
}