Setting timezone to UTC (0) in PHP

Question

Why does this work?

date_default_timezone_set(\'Australia/Currie\');

But this doesn\'t seem to take any effect at all?

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Answer 1

In PHP DateTime (PHP >= 5.3)

$dt = new DateTime();
$dt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
echo $dt->getTimestamp();