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How do I change timezone for PHP?

There are at least 2 ways to cause PHP to behave as if it was in the timezone of your choice.

1. Follow this other FAQ to change timezone for your entire account.

2. If you only want particular PHP scripts (and not shell or other cgi scripts) to use a specific timezone, set the timezone environmental variable in your PHP code like so:
<?
echo "Original Time: ". date("h:i:s")."\n";
putenv("TZ=US/Eastern");
echo "New Time: ". date("h:i:s")."\n";
?>
If you put the line putenv("TZ=US/Eastern"); in a file that is
include()'ed by all your other PHP scripts, then all your PHP scripts will use that timezone.

A list of timezones to choose from, other than "US/Eastern" for your putenv() is here:

http://www.theprojects.org/dev/zone.txt

If you are looking for information about changing timezones for MySQL, look here.

User-Contributed Notes

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tim.NOtrimbleJUNK -at- gmailS.com
28-Apr-2005 13:45
Be sure to use the "underscore" (_) character in the syntax when needed,
such as putenv("TZ=America/Los_Angeles")

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