Can I get the timestamp in specific time zone? - php

Question

I have a MySQL query that saves a comment in the database and save also the timestamp I want to save the timestamp in another time zone settings can i do it through the following query:
INSERT INTO tahminler
(comment, comment_text, match_id, user_id, timestamp)
VALUES ('$comment','$comment_text', $id, $user_id, now())

Answer 1

Yes. You can do it with date_default_timezone_set() on PHP.
<?php
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');// Your local server time
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo "<br>";
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');// Los Angeles time
So replace your now() with date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); after setting the timezone of your choice.

Answer 2

You can try with this one
//default timezone
$date = new DateTime(null);
echo 'Default timezone: '.$date->getTimestamp().'<br />'."\r\n";
//America/New_York
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
echo 'America/New_York: '.$date->getTimestamp().'<br />'."\r\n";
Get the regular timestamp and add the UTC offset
//America/New_York
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
echo 'America/New_York: '.($date->getTimestamp() + $date->getOffset()).'<br />'."\r\n";

Answer 3

You can alter your table with add column timestamp like this....
ALTER TABLE `table1` ADD `lastUpdated` TIMESTAMP
ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
This adds a column called 'lastUpdated' with a default value of the current date/time. When that record is updated (lets say 5 minutes later) that timestamp will automatically update to the current time.