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
)
In order of preference, this function returns the default timezone by:
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Reading the timezone set using the date_default_timezone_set() function (if any)
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Reading the TZ environment variable (if non empty)
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Reading the value of the date.timezone ini option (if set)
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Querying the host operating system (if supported and allowed by the OS)
If none of the above succeed, date_default_timezone_get will return a default timezone of UTC.
Return Values
Returns a string.
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User Contributed Notesdate_default_timezone_get
harmor
28-Feb-2008 06:19
28-Feb-2008 06:19
dohpaz at gmail dot com
21-Apr-2007 12:58
21-Apr-2007 12:58
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.