Strftime Displaying Incorrect Time

Question

What I'm trying to do is get the correct time of the user browsing my website and add 10 minutes to the current time. Here is hte code I have:

<?php
$now = time();
$closetime = $now+600;
echo strftime("%A %b %e %I:%M%p %Z",$closetime) . "\n";
?>

Everything works as I intended, the only issue that the timezone is off. I'm currently on the eastcoast so its 12:55 here, but the above code would output: Monday Oct 7 12:05PM CDT which is 1 hour behind what I want.

How do I make this appear correctly for the user so no matter what country or timezone it will always display 10 minutes from the current time?

Do you want to display in the user's timezone? PHP can't get that directly, you need help from Javascript. — Barmar, Oct 07 '13 at 17:00
@Barmar yes thats what I'm trying to do.. how do I do that with javascript? — Joe Bobby, Oct 07 '13 at 17:03
@JoeBobby: Nope, you'll have to use [JavaScript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/) for that (what Barmar said above). — Amal Murali, Oct 07 '13 at 17:03
See the answer from Westy92 here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3498128/guessing-users-timezone-in-php?rq=1 — Barmar, Oct 07 '13 at 17:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '13 at 17:11

Check the timezone you are using with ini_get('date.timezone'). If isn't the right timezone search for date.timezone in your php.ini file and edit the value for one of the supported timezones values that PHP have.

date.timezone = "America/Los_Angeles"

If you don't have access to the php.ini file you can overwrite that value with date_default_timezone_set function at the begining of your app evertytime it is executed.

Strftime Displaying Incorrect Time

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