Convert UTC dates to local time in PHP

Question

I\'m storing the UTC dates into the DB using:

$utc = gmdate(\"M d Y h:i:s A\");

and then I want to convert the saved UTC date to the client

Answer 1

Given a local timezone, such as 'America/Denver', you can use DateTime class to convert UTC timestamp to the local date:

$timestamp = *********;
$date = new DateTime("@" . $timestamp);
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('America/Denver'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Answer 2

Date arithmetic is not needed if you just want to display the same timestamp in different timezones:

$format = "M d, Y h:ia";
$timestamp = gmdate($format);

date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
$utc_datetime = date($format, $timestamp);

date_default_timezone_set("America/Guayaquil");
$local_datetime = date($format, $timestamp);

Answer 3

Here I am sharing the script, convert UTC timestamp to Indian timestamp:-

    // create a $utc object with the UTC timezone
    $IST = new DateTime('2016-12-12 12:12:12', new DateTimeZone('UTC'));

    // change the timezone of the object without changing it's time
    $IST->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata'));

    // format the datetime
   echo $IST->format('Y-m-d H:i:s T');

Answer 4

$UTC_Time   = "2018-07-06 06:06:16";
echo "UTC Time ".$UTC_Time;
$Indian_Time = TimeConverion($UTC_Time);
echo "<br> Indian_Time ".$Indian_Time;

function TimeConverion($UTC_Time) {
  date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
  $sTime = date("Y-m-d h:i:sa");
  $ts3 = strtotime(date("G:i:s"))-strtotime($sTime); 
  $utc = explode(" ",$UTC_Time);
  $time = strtotime($utc[1]);
  date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Calcutta");
  $time += $ts3;  // Add the difference
  return $utc[0]." ".date("H:i:s", $time);
}