PHP & MySQL: Converting Stored TIMESTAMP into User's Local Timezone

Question

So I have a site with a comments feature where the timestamp of the comment is stored in a MySQL database. From what I understand, the timestamp is converted to UTC when sto

Answer 1

There is no reliable way to get the user's timezone. Timezone information is not sent in HTTP headers. The best that you could do is either:

1. Match the IP address againsta geographic database -or-
2. Use Javascript to get the time set on the user's computer and either send that to the server (AJAX) or make the time string on the client.