hi gang
I'm trying to find a simple way to determine if a given date/time is with
DST for a given locale at any point in time ... the point is basically to
convert date strings into accurate GMT timestamps for storage in the
database...
Like I've got date strings looking like:
Thursday, July 22, 2004 8:50:01 PM
July 22, 2004 6:42 PM
the strings are submitted through a form, together with a variable
determining the time zone these times are in. I just want to figure out if
the dates are with or without dst for that locale, at that given time, so
that I can properly convert them to GMT times ... but I have no clue how to
do that ... haven't been able to find anything useful in the manual or the
PHP Cookbook ... the time zone is submitted negative of the actual value ...
so a time offset of -0700 is submitted as +7 and +0200 as -2 ... this is
simply to make the time conversion simpler...
these are extracts of the current time calculation codes, including some
debugging code for the time conversion:
<?php
$date = $_POST['date'];
$tzone = $_POST['tzone'];
$timestamp = strtotime($date);
if ($tzone != 'none') {
$tdif = $tzone.' hours';
$timestamp = strtotime($tdif,$timestamp);
}
?>
/* the following part is an extra of a larger table ... the formatting of
the time zone is merely for displaying purposes atm. The goal is to create
RFC2822 dates to be stored in the database alongside messages...
*/
<td>Workdate: <?php echo($date.' '.$tzone); ?><br>
Time difference: <?php
if ($tzone > 0) {
$format = '-';
} else {
$format = '+';
}
if (abs($tzone) > 9) {
$format .= '%u00';
} else {
$format .= '0%u00';
}
printf($format,abs($tzone)); ?><br>
Unix timestamp: <?php echo($timestamp); ?><br>
GMT date: <?php echo(date('D, d M Y H:i:s',$timestamp)); ?></td>
if anyone has any ideas for determining whether DST is on or off, I'd
appreciate it. right now I have no clue how to do this the easiest...
TIA
Rene
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