Users Timezone

CMellor · 09-26-2007, 12:22 AM

Hey, hope all are well. I have a question.

My project is pretty big, and can only hope for global success. Currently all the times on the website are using the server's clock, which is 6 hours behind my clock (It's in the USA and I'm in the UK). I will allow my users to set there timezone via a select menu, the same as a lot of forums (including this one) use in it's control panel. I'll be storing the value in the 'member' table.

What I'm not 100% sure on is how to use the value to display the time in their timezone. My timezone would be '0 - GMT' but with the server time been six hours behind my clock, would I add '+6' instead? When I output a time, I want it to be the time in their timezone, so, my first though was to do something like this:

Code:

echo date('D M, Y' time()+$row->timezone);

If anyone has any discussions on this, I look forward to hearing them :)

P.S. Hope I made sense :P