I want to convert date UTC for Europe/Lisbon, but the code I have gives me different outputs/times:
$datafull = "13-04-2021 08:47:13";
$date = new DateTime($datafull);
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Lisbon'));
echo $date->format('d-m-Y H:i:s (e)');
// 13-04-2021 09:47:13 (Europe/Lisbon)
$datetime = new DateTime($datafull, new DateTimeZone('Europe/Lisbon'));
print $datetime->format('d-m-Y H:i:s (e)');
// 13-04-2021 08:47:13 (Europe/Lisbon)
When you supply a timezone object to the DateTime constructor you're telling it in what timezone the give $datafull is. So in:
$datetime = new DateTime($datafull, new DateTimeZone('Europe/Lisbon'));
You say it is in Europe/Lisbon, and it stays there.
In the other code:
$date = new DateTime($datafull);
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Lisbon'));
The default timezone is used when the DateTime is constructed, probably UTC on your server, and then you change it afterwards on the second line to Europe/Lisbon, which is an hour ahead.
See: DateTime::__construct
I have a datetime value in this format 2019-07-01T05:21:08.148986Z which is in UTC.
How can I convert this timestamp into local time in human readable format?
FROM A DATETIME OBJECT:
You just need to modify the timezone :
$date->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone(date_default_timezone_get() ) );
echo $date->format('d/m/Y H:i:s') . "\n";
You can also set a Time Zone beforehand :
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');
FROM A STRING:
Convert your date in timestamp :
$timestamp = strtotime($yourDate);
Then create a date using the timezone you want :
$date = new DateTime();
$date->setTimestamp($timestamp);
$date->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone(date_default_timezone_get()));
echo $date->format('d/m/Y H:i:s') . "\n";
You can also set a Time Zone beforehand :
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');
Is there something wrong with the MongoDate feature?
When I convert a DateTime Object to MongoDate, and then I try to convert it back to DateTime, I get a totally different value. Keep in mind we're talking about a date within the EPOCH limits.
Here's a way to reproduce the issue.
$dateTime = new DateTime( '2015-07-20 10:15:45', new DateTimeZone( 'Europe/London' ) );
$mongoDate = new MongoDate( $dateTime->getTimeStamp() );
echo $mongoDate->sec ."\n"; // 1437383745
echo date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $mongoDate->sec ) ."\n"; // 2015-07-20 11:15:45
$dateTime2 = $mongoDate->toDateTime();
echo $dateTime2->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') ."\n"; // 1969-12-15 10:41:40
Is this behaviour normal?
You have timezone issue. When you create DateTime object, you create it in Europe/London timezone. But when you "convert" seconds back to datetime format, you use date() function, which uses default timezone, which apparently is different from Europe/London.
Create DateTime object with $mongoDate->sec and then convert timezone.
$dt = new DateTime('#' . $mongoDate->sec);
$dt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
echo $dt->format('c');
I am trying to convert time between current time to UTC and UTC to current time zone.
Here is what I have done:
$schedule_date = new DateTime($triggerOn, new DateTimeZone('UTC') );
$triggerOn = $schedule_date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $triggerOn;
The output value does not change the only thing that changes in format.
the string $triggerOn was generated based on America/Los_Angeles timezone
This is how my string looks like before and after:
BEFORE 04/01/2013 03:08 PM
AFTER 2013-04-01 15:08:00
So the issue here is that DateTime does not convert to UTC.
What you're looking for is this:
$triggerOn = '04/01/2013 03:08 PM';
$user_tz = 'America/Los_Angeles';
echo $triggerOn; // echoes 04/01/2013 03:08 PM
$schedule_date = new DateTime($triggerOn, new DateTimeZone($user_tz) );
$schedule_date->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
$triggerOn = $schedule_date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $triggerOn; // echoes 2013-04-01 22:08:00
You are consuming the date/time and setting the time zone correctly, however before formatting the datetime, you are not setting the desired output timezone. Here is an example which accepts a UTC time zone, and converts the date/time to the America/Los_Angeles time zone:
<?php
$original_datetime = '04/01/2013 03:08 PM';
$original_timezone = new DateTimeZone('UTC');
// Instantiate the DateTime object, setting it's date, time and time zone.
$datetime = new DateTime($original_datetime, $original_timezone);
// Set the DateTime object's time zone to convert the time appropriately.
$target_timezone = new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles');
$datetime->setTimeZone($target_timezone);
// Outputs a date/time string based on the time zone you've set on the object.
$triggerOn = $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
// Print the date/time string.
print $triggerOn; // 2013-04-01 08:08:00
Create the date using the local timezone, then call DateTime::setTimeZone() to change it.
I am in need of an easy way to convert a date time stamp to UTC (from whatever timezone the server is in) HOPEFULLY without using any libraries.
Use strtotime to generate a timestamp from the given string (interpreted as local time) and use gmdate to get it as a formatted UTC date back.
Example
As requested, here’s a simple example:
echo gmdate('d.m.Y H:i', strtotime('2012-06-28 23:55'));
Using DateTime:
$given = new DateTime("2014-12-12 14:18:00");
echo $given->format("Y-m-d H:i:s e") . "\n"; // 2014-12-12 14:18:00 Asia/Bangkok
$given->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone("UTC"));
echo $given->format("Y-m-d H:i:s e") . "\n"; // 2014-12-12 07:18:00 UTC
Try the getTimezone and setTimezone, see the example
(But this does use a Class)
UPDATE:
Without any classes you could try something like this:
$the_date = strtotime("2010-01-19 00:00:00");
echo(date_default_timezone_get() . "<br />");
echo(date("Y-d-mTG:i:sz",$the_date) . "<br />");
echo(date_default_timezone_set("UTC") . "<br />");
echo(date("Y-d-mTG:i:sz", $the_date) . "<br />");
NOTE: You might need to set the timezone back to the original as well
Do this way:
gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp)
or simply
gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s')
to get "NOW" in UTC.
Check the reference:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gmdate.php
If you have a date in this format YYYY-MM-HH dd:mm:ss,
you can actually trick php by adding a UTC at the end of your "datetime string" and use strtotime to convert it.
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Stockholm');
print date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime("2009-01-01 12:00"." UTC"))."\n";
print date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime("2009-06-01 12:00"." UTC"))."\n";
This will print this:
2009-01-01 13:00:00
2009-06-01 14:00:00
And as you can see it takes care of the daylight savings time problem as well.
A little strange way to solve it.... :)
Convert local time zone string to UTC string.
e.g. New Zealand Time Zone
$datetime = "2016-02-01 00:00:01";
$given = new DateTime($datetime, new DateTimeZone("Pacific/Auckland"));
$given->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone("UTC"));
$output = $given->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
echo ($output);
NZDT: UTC+13:00
if $datetime = "2016-02-01 00:00:01", $output = "2016-01-31 11:00:01";
if $datetime = "2016-02-29 23:59:59", $output = "2016-02-29 10:59:59";
NZST: UTC+12:00
if $datetime = "2016-05-01 00:00:01", $output = "2016-04-30 12:00:01";
if $datetime = "2016-05-31 23:59:59", $output = "2016-05-31 11:59:59";
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_New_Zealand
If you don't mind using PHP's DateTime class, which has been available since PHP 5.2.0, then there are several scenarios that might fit your situation:
If you have a $givenDt DateTime object that you want to convert to UTC then this will convert it to UTC:
$givenDt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
If you need the original $givenDt later, you might alternatively want to clone the given DateTime object before conversion of the cloned object:
$utcDt = clone $givenDt;
$utcDt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
If you only have a datetime string, e.g. $givenStr = '2018-12-17 10:47:12', then you first create a datetime object, and then convert it. Note this assumes that $givenStr is in PHP's configured timezone.
$utcDt = (new DateTime($givenStr))->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
If the given datetime string is in some timezone different from the one in your PHP configuration, then create the datetime object by supplying the correct timezone (see the list of timezones PHP supports). In this example we assume the local timezone in Amsterdam:
$givenDt = new DateTime($givenStr, new DateTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam'));
$givenDt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
As strtotime requires specific input format, DateTime::createFromFormat could be used (php 5.3+ is required)
// set timezone to user timezone
date_default_timezone_set($str_user_timezone);
// create date object using any given format
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat($str_user_dateformat, $str_user_datetime);
// convert given datetime to safe format for strtotime
$str_user_datetime = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
// convert to UTC
$str_UTC_datetime = gmdate($str_server_dateformat, strtotime($str_user_datetime));
// return timezone to server default
date_default_timezone_set($str_server_timezone);
I sometime use this method:
// It is not importnat what timezone your system is set to.
// Get the UTC offset in seconds:
$offset = date("Z");
// Then subtract if from your original timestamp:
$utc_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($original_time." -".$offset." Seconds"));
Works all MOST of the time.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php or if you need to not use a string but time components instead, then http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
With PHP 5 or superior, you may use datetime::format function (see documentation http://us.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php)
echo strftime( '%e %B %Y' ,
date_create_from_format('Y-d-m G:i:s', '2012-04-05 11:55:21')->format('U')
); // 4 May 2012
try
echo date('F d Y', strtotime('2010-01-19 00:00:00'));
will output:
January 19 2010
you should change format time to see other output
General purpose normalisation function to format any timestamp from any timezone to other.
Very useful for storing datetimestamps of users from different timezones in a relational database. For database comparisons store timestamp as UTC and use with gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s')
/**
* Convert Datetime from any given olsonzone to other.
* #return datetime in user specified format
*/
function datetimeconv($datetime, $from, $to)
{
try {
if ($from['localeFormat'] != 'Y-m-d H:i:s') {
$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat($from['localeFormat'], $datetime)->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
}
$datetime = new DateTime($datetime, new DateTimeZone($from['olsonZone']));
$datetime->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone($to['olsonZone']));
return $datetime->format($to['localeFormat']);
} catch (\Exception $e) {
return null;
}
}
Usage:
$from = ['localeFormat' => "d/m/Y H:i A", 'olsonZone' => 'Asia/Calcutta'];
$to = ['localeFormat' => "Y-m-d H:i:s", 'olsonZone' => 'UTC'];
datetimeconv("14/05/1986 10:45 PM", $from, $to); // returns "1986-05-14 17:15:00"
As an improvement on Phill Pafford's answer (I did not understand his 'Y-d-mTG:i:sz' and he suggested to revert timezone).
So I propose this (I complicated by changing the HMTL format in plain/text...):
<?php
header('content-type: text/plain;');
$my_timestamp = strtotime("2010-01-19 00:00:00");
// stores timezone
$my_timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo date(DATE_ATOM, $my_timestamp)."\t ($my_timezone date)\n";
// changes timezone
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
echo date("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z", $my_timestamp)."\t\t (ISO8601 UTC date)\n";
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $my_timestamp)."\t\t (your UTC date)\n";
// reverts change
date_default_timezone_set($my_timezone);
echo date(DATE_ATOM, $my_timestamp)."\t ($my_timezone date is back)\n";
?>
alternatively you can try this:
<?php echo (new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone('Asia/Singapore')))->format("Y-m-d H:i:s e"); ?>
this will output :
2017-10-25 17:13:20 Asia/Singapore
you can use this inside the value attribute of a text input box if you only want to display a read-only date.
remove the 'e' if you do not wish to show your region/country.
Follow these steps to get UTC time of any timezone set in user's local system (This will be required for web applications to save different timezones to UTC):
Javascript (client-side):
var dateVar = new Date();
var offset = dateVar.getTimezoneOffset();
//getTimezoneOffset - returns the timezone difference between UTC and Local Time
document.cookie = "offset="+offset;
Php (server-side):
public function convert_utc_time($date)
{
$time_difference = isset($_COOKIE['offset'])?$_COOKIE['offset']:'';
if($time_difference != ''){
$time = strtotime($date);
$time = $time + ($time_difference*60); //minutes * 60 seconds
$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $time);
} //on failure of js, default timezone is set as UTC below
return $date;
}
..
..
//in my function
$timezone = 'UTC';
$date = $this->convert_utc_time($post_date); //$post_date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
echo strtotime($date. ' '. $timezone)