Est time zone in php

I want to get current time of US/Eastern timezone. How would I achieve that.

I have tried following code but it is displaying my system's time.

<?php
   date_default_timezone_set('US/Eastern');
   $currenttime = date('h:i:s:u');
   list($hrs,$mins,$secs,$msecs) = split(':',$currenttime);
   //print "&time2=".$secs."&time1=".$mins."&time0=".$hrs;
?>

I am using this script with flash so commented out 'print' line.

halfer

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asked Dec 16, 2010 at 0:34

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<?php
   echo date_default_timezone_get();
   $currenttime = date('h:i:s:u');
   list($hrs,$mins,$secs,$msecs) = split(':',$currenttime);
   echo " => $hrs:$mins:$secs\n";

   date_default_timezone_set('US/Eastern');
   echo date_default_timezone_get();
   $currenttime = date('h:i:s:u');
   list($hrs,$mins,$secs,$msecs) = split(':',$currenttime);
   echo " => $hrs:$mins:$secs\n";

   date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
   echo date_default_timezone_get();
   $currenttime = date('h:i:s:u');
   list($hrs,$mins,$secs,$msecs) = split(':',$currenttime);
   echo " => $hrs:$mins:$secs\n";

?>

Seems to work here (in Berlin):

Europe/Berlin => 01:42:42
US/Eastern => 07:45:18
America/New_York => 07:45:18

answered Dec 16, 2010 at 0:44

mikumiku

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$amNY = new DateTime('America/New_York');
$estTime = $amNY->format('h:i:s:u');

or if you are using php 5.4 and above

estTime = (new DateTime('America/New_York'))->format('h:i:s:u');

date_default_timezone_set() will affect the whole script and should be used carefully

Ram Sharma

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answered Mar 13, 2014 at 23:20

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http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Looks like the US/Eastern is deprecated. Try America/New_York

EDIT this probably won't fix your problem, but you should do it anyway. Being deprecated means that they could remove it in the future.

answered Dec 16, 2010 at 0:44

RobertRobert

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The easiest way is probably to use gmmktime() to get the Unix timestamp for the current GMT, then subtract 5 hours from it. That way you get Eastern Time no matter where the server happens to be.

Saty

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answered Dec 16, 2010 at 0:45

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I just use

<?php
Date_default_timezone('est');
$lv=date('l, F jS, Y, g:I:s A T,$ir['laston']);
?>
<b>last visit</b> <em>$lv.</em>

Seems to work perfectly for me on my game that I'm working on. Mind you if you want to use it just remove the $ir['laston'] and it should work no problem

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