date_date_set
If you want to get the abbrivation (3 or 4 letter), instead of the long timezone string you can use date('T') function like this:
Input:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date_default_timezone_get();
echo ' => '.date('e');
echo ' => '.date('T');
Output:
America/Los_Angeles => America/Los_Angeles => PST
date_default_timezone_get
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
date_default_timezone_get — Gets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
Description
string date_default_timezone_get
( void
)
This functions returns the default timezone, using the following "guess" order:
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The timezone set using the date_default_timezone_set() function (if any)
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The TZ environment variable (if non empty)
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The date.timezone ini option (if set)
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"magical" guess (if the operating system supports it)
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If none of the above options succeeds, return UTC
Return Values
Returns a string.
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User Contributed Notesdate_default_timezone_get
harmor
28-Feb-2008 08:19
28-Feb-2008 08:19
dohpaz at gmail dot com
20-Apr-2007 02:58
20-Apr-2007 02:58
date_default_timezone_get() will still emit a warning in E_STRICT if the timezone is not set; either by date_default_timezone_set() or the ini option of date.timezone.
This is probably not a big deal, but I thought I would contribute what I found.