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Does someone know a way to get a string from a date that contains the format of the date? <?php $date = date ("2009-10-16 21:30:45"); // smething like this? print date_format ($date); ?> I ask this because I'd like to optimize this function I've written, usually to get the date with a different timezone from a server, without doing particular things <?php function get_timezone_offset ($timezone, $date = null, $format = null, $offset_timezone = null) { if ($date == null) $date = date ($format); if ($offset_timezone == null) $offset_timezone = date_default_timezone_get (); if ($format == null) $format = "Y-m-d H:i:s"; // I'd like to find a way that can avoid me to write $format and get it directly from the date i pass, but I don't know a particular method can do it // if ($format == null) $format = date_format ($date); $date_time = new DateTime ($date, new DateTimeZone ($offset_timezone)); $date_time->setTimeZone (new DateTimeZone ($timezone)); return $date_time->format ($format); } print get_timezone_offset ("Europe/Rome"); print get_timezone_offset ("Europe/Rome", date ("Y-m-d H:i:s")); print get_timezone_offset ("Europe/Rome", date ("Y-m-d H:i:s"), "Y-m-d H:i:s"); print get_timezone_offset ("Europe/Rome", "2009-10-16 21:30:45", "Y-m-d H:i:s", "America/New_York"); ?> I hope to avoid regular expressions for performance reasons, but I don't know if this is possible

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