Digital Watch in Cakephp

Question

I want to use Digital watch in cakephp according to time zone I provide.

I'm able to show current time according to user timezone.

In details..
I'm working on a project. I have a table in database where I have seved users details like.
First Name
Last Name
Timezone
and other details.

I want to show the digital clock on user's profile according to timezone stored in the database.

Kindly help me how can I do that.

Thanks

When you tried to use [the time helper](http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/time.html#using-the-helper) to display the localized time what problem did you have? — AD7six, Aug 31 '14 at 11:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

You ned to use Javascript to display clock at page. You can use any of it, just goole and select clock you like. For example this from w3schools it will display clock in the user's current timezone.

If you still want to show clock in predefined timezone just set starting values from PHP instead this line from above example:

var today=new Date();

use something like

var today=new Date(<?=$current_timestamp_in_selected_timezone?>);

Use PHP function to build $current_timestamp_in_selected_timezone mktime() or date()

Note that you need to write javascript code inside your View to use such technic what isn't a good approach. In good application you need to write code of your JS clock in JS file, put it into app/webroot/js, include that file in layout or call inside controller and than pass variable from PHP. How to do that read here: How to pass variables and data from PHP to JavaScript?

Digital Watch in Cakephp

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