php get US/Eastern current time

Question

I want to get current time of US/Eastern timezone. How would I achieve that.

I have tried following code but it is displaying my system\'s time.

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Answer 1

The easiest way is probably to use gmmktime() to get the Unix timestamp for the current GMT, then subtract 5 hours from it. That way you get Eastern Time no matter where the server happens to be.