Converting Dates to GMT

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Weirfire, May 1, 2007.

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  1. #1 
    <?php

$date1 = 'Tue, 01 May 2007 09:31:55 EDT';
$date2 = 'Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:44:00 PDT';
$date3 = 'Tue, 01 May 2007 14:07:26 GMT';

?>
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    Is there an easy way to convert all these dates to GMT values even if I don't know what the timezone will be every time?
     
    Weirfire, May 1, 2007 IP
  2. crazeinc

    crazeinc Peon

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    you can get the gmt offset via javascript with getTimezoneOffset(), but if you have the dates stored in php, that complicates things a bit.
     
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  3. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    you have the gmdate() functions which outputs a GMT date. I think something like this should work.

    

$date = 'Tue, 01 May 2007 09:31:55 EDT';

$dateGMT = gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s',strtotime(substr($date,-3,3),substr($date,0,-4)));
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