Comments on: Timezones in PHP. http://blog.firetree.net/2006/10/03/timezones-in-php/ Sharing useful things with the world. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:39:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Giles http://blog.firetree.net/2006/10/03/timezones-in-php/#comment-8210 Giles Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:14 +0000 http://blog.firetree.net/2006/10/03/timezones-in-php/#comment-8210 <p>It would probably be an improvement to clean it up with a couple of helper functions - since the PHP documentation indicates that the 5.1.x functions offer more functionality than the getenv() option. Then at least 5.1.x users have the advantage of the built-in functionality.</p> <pre><code>function custom_timezone_set( $tz ) { if (function_exists('date_default_timezone_set')) { date_default_timezone_set( $tz ); } else { putenv("TZ=$tz"); } } function custom_timezone_get() { if (function_exists('date_default_timezone_get')) { date_default_timezone_get(); } else { getenv("TZ"); } } </code></pre> It would probably be an improvement to clean it up with a couple of helper functions - since the PHP documentation indicates that the 5.1.x functions offer more functionality than the getenv() option. Then at least 5.1.x users have the advantage of the built-in functionality.

function custom_timezone_set( $tz )
{
    if (function_exists('date_default_timezone_set')) {
        date_default_timezone_set( $tz );
    }
    else {
        putenv("TZ=$tz");
    }
}

function custom_timezone_get()
{
    if (function_exists('date_default_timezone_get')) {
        date_default_timezone_get();
    }
    else {
        getenv("TZ");
    }
}
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