PHP: How to get timezone value (ex: Eastern Standard Time) from timezone name (ex: America/New_York)?

Question

Is there a PHP function anywhere which converts between the timezone name (such as those found here: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php) and the \"value\" such as Ea

Answer 1

If you know the value from your list at (http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php) you can do something like.

setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
echo $dateTime->format('T'); 

?>