PHP & MySQL: Converting Stored TIMESTAMP into User's Local Timezone

Question

So I have a site with a comments feature where the timestamp of the comment is stored in a MySQL database. From what I understand, the timestamp is converted to UTC when sto

Answer 1

$timezone = new DateTimeZone('America/Vancouver');

$date = new DateTime(date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time()));
$date->setTimeZone($timezone);
echo $date->format('l F j Y g:i:s A')."\n";

Replace new DateTime(date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time())); with new DateTime("UTC Time");

You can create a new DateTimeZone() object for each user input.