How to determine the PHP timezone id from a city or state?

Question

I have a list of cities state zip code. Is there a way in PHP where can pass some of those values and return the time zone id?

for example if I pass Nevada I get "America\Los_angels" in return.

Can this be done is PHP class? or I need to use external API like Google maps?

Thanks

Check this out. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13/determining-a-web-users-time-zone — Panama Jack, Jun 24 '13 at 23:00
thanks for the link. This link does not give me PHP timezone id from city, state ot zipcode. — Mike, Jun 25 '13 at 00:19

sectus · Answer 1 · 2013-06-25T00:59:04.950

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There is no such function in PHP. But you could do it yourself.

Take database of zip codes and states(Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZIP_code_prefixes), take database of timezones and states(Example: statoids.com/tus.html), combine it to new one.

Or.

You can use some webservice (Example: webservicex.net/uszip.asmx) for direct use or for build your own database.

edited Jun 25 '13 at 00:59

answered Jun 25 '13 at 00:34

sectus

webservicex.net/uszip.asmx does not return the PHP timezone. How can I combine the timezones and the states? for a timezones and state what you are referring to? http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php? – Mike Jun 25 '13 at 00:39
@Mike , so, you need to build your own DB. It's not hard. – sectus Jun 25 '13 at 00:54

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