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How to find day of week in php in a specific timezone

Asked 2009-04-03T06:41:36.243
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I am confused while using php to handle date/time.

What I am trying to do is this: When a user visits my page I am asking his timezone and then displaying the 'day of week' in his timezone.

I don't want to use the browser's day. I want to do this calculation in php.

This is how I am trying to achieve it:

  1. The timezone entered by user
  2. Unix time stamp calculated by php time() function.

But I dont know how to proceed... How would i get the 'day of week' in this timezone.

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Thanks a lot guys for your quick comments.

This is what i will be using now. Posting the function here so that somebody may use it.

public function getDayOfWeek($pTimezone)
{

    $userDateTimeZone = new DateTimeZone($pTimezone);
    $UserDateTime = new DateTime("now", $userDateTimeZone);

    $offsetSeconds = $UserDateTime->getOffset(); 
    //echo $offsetSeconds;

    return gmdate("l", time() + $offsetSeconds);

}

Report if you find any corrections.

answered 2009-04-03T08:22:35.563
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Another quick way:

date_default_timezone_set($userTimezone);
echo date("l");
answered 2010-10-18T23:22:45.533

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