How to get Time Zone of a place in php - php

Question

I have a formatted address of a place like Bhubaneswar,Odisha,India.How can I get the Time Zone of this place ie "Asia/Calcutta" in php code ?
I can get this using googlemapapi ie Firstly i get the lat and long from this address and using this latitude and longitude and google time zone api key I get the time Zone in javascript .
I want the time zone in purely php code . Can i ?
Thanks in Avd

Answer 1

Sure you can. Try with file_get_contents():
<?php
$url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?location=20,85&timestamp=1393575206&sensor=false";
$json_timezone = file_get_contents($url);
print_r($json_timezone);
?>
This will print:
{ "dstOffset" : 0, "rawOffset" : 19800, "status" : "OK", "timeZoneId" : "Asia/Calcutta", "timeZoneName" : "India Standard Time" }
Replace the timestamp by the current timestamp or the timestamp corresponding to the date/time you want.

Answer 2

Getting User Timezone using PHP and JS (No API's) (Update on 2020)
Detecting user timezone is a two-step process:
Get the timezone offset of the browser with Javascript, and sent it to PHP (via AJAX or something).
Convert the timezone offset to a valid TZ Database timezone name such as America/New_York,Asia/Kolkata.
1) Getting the Browser Timezone Offset
Javascript has a getTimezoneOffset method which gives timezone difference, in minutes, from current local time to UTC. We need to pass this offset to the server.
It should be noted that getTimezoneOffset returns an offset which is positive if the local timezone is behind UTC and negative if it is ahead. So we must add an opposite sign (+ or -) to the offset.
var timezone_offset_minutes = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();
timezone_offset_minutes = timezone_offset_minutes == 0 ? 0 : -timezone_offset_minutes;
// Timezone difference in minutes such as 330 or -360 or 0
console.log(timezone_offset_minutes);
2) In PHP, Convert Timezone Offset in Minutes to a Timezone Name
You can get the timezone name from timezone offset in minutes through the timezone_name_from_abbr function.
// This is just an example. In application this will come from Javascript (via an AJAX or something)
$timezone_offset_minutes = 330; // $_GET['timezone_offset_minutes']
// Convert minutes to seconds
$timezone_name = timezone_name_from_abbr("", $timezone_offset_minutes*60, false);
// Asia/Kolkata
echo $timezone_name;
Now when you get the timezone name, you can get date and time relative to the user's timezone :
date_default_timezone_set($timezone_name);
Source: https://usefulangle.com/post/31/detect-user-browser-timezone-name-in-php

Answer 3

public function getTimezone($location)
{
$location = urlencode($location);
$APIkey = "PLACE API KEY HERE";
if(!$APIkey){ return false;}
$url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={$location}&key=$APIkey";
$data = file_get_contents($url);
// Get the lat/lng out of the data
$data = json_decode($data);
if(!$data) return false;
if(!is_array($data->results)) return false;
if(!isset($data->results[0])) return false;
if(!is_object($data->results[0])) return false;
if(!is_object($data->results[0]->geometry)) return false;
if(!is_object($data->results[0]->geometry->location)) return false;
if(!is_numeric($data->results[0]->geometry->location->lat)) return false;
if(!is_numeric($data->results[0]->geometry->location->lng)) return false;
$lat = $data->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
$lng = $data->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;
// get the API response for the timezone
//$timezoneAPI = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?location={$lat},{$lng}&timestamp=1331161200&key=AIzaSyBtEwgQX2k0fijo3EsFlOLgXxEvkDpDyeI";
$timezoneAPI = "http://api.geonames.org/timezoneJSON?lat={$lat}&lng={$lng}&username=demo";
$response = file_get_contents($timezoneAPI);
if(!$response)
return false;
$response = json_decode($response);
if(!is_object($response))
return false;
if(isset($response->timezoneId) && !is_string($response->timezoneId)) // If google api, use timeZoneId
return false;
return $response->timezoneId;
}
Please Use this function

Answer 4

In case you find this thread, then take a look at timezoneapi.io.
With the address API you can request an address. The request returns:
The address
The timezone (and a lot of related information about the timezone)
The date / time about the timezone, e.g. what time is it in the timezone, is the timezone in DST, the currency, the capital etc.
In PHP
// Get JSON object
$jsondata = file_get_contents("https://timezoneapi.io/api/address/?Hacker+Way+1+Menlo+Park+California");
// Decode
$data = json_decode($jsondata, true);
// Request OK?
if($data['meta']['code'] == '200'){
// Example: Get the city parameter
echo "City: " . $data['data']['addresses']['0']['city'] . "<br>";
// Example: Get the users time
echo "Time: " . $data['data']['addresses']['0']['datetime']['date_time_txt'] . "<br>";
}
More documentation here:
https://timezoneapi.io/developers/address