How to get client timezone in PHP

Question

I am searching for PHP code which can get automatically timezone of client side. I had searched, and I found javascript who get timezone. How can I convert and use JavaScript in PHP to get timezone automatically?

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript">
function get_time_zone_offset( ) {
var current_date = new Date( );
var gmt_offset = current_date.getTimezoneOffset( ) / 60;
return gmt_offset;
}
$('#offset').html( get_time_zone_offset( ) );
</script>

Please help me to convert this code into PHP and call this function into echo.

I will be very thankful to you guys.

It's not at all clear to me what you mean. You just need to make sure that your PHP serves the appropriate Javascript as part of its HTML response... you *are* serving HTML from your PHP, right? — Jon Skeet, Dec 25 '14 at 21:14
http://blog.codez.in/php5-time-zone-solution/web-development/2010/07/09 might help you — Tushar Gupta, Dec 25 '14 at 21:16
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16525617/how-to-detect-users-timezone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1905397/how-to-get-clients-timezone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13/determining-a-web-users-time-zone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5203382/how-to-automatically-detect-users-timezone — chrki, Dec 25 '14 at 21:17
i want to calculate timezone with the help of javascript and use this information in php and then show this with the help of echo. — fazi, Dec 25 '14 at 21:17
@fazi if your end goal is to show it then why bother with php? — David Sherret, Dec 25 '14 at 21:18
you r right but you know basically i am creating a php script which calculate prayer time and prayer time depend on sunrise and sunset so in euorope the time zone is +1 and -1h so now i want a code in php that calculate automatically timezone and set the dates automatically — fazi, Dec 25 '14 at 21:22
guys i will put my all the code here so you can see what i had done and then i will explain that to you. — fazi, Dec 25 '14 at 21:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 25 '14 at 21:42

You may send timezone_offset to the server via ajax. You may store it somewhere on the server then. Or you may set a cookie with this value so it may be used on next page load.

But if you need to calculate and immedeately show it to the user - you better use javascript and maybe cookie for next page load.

How to get client timezone in PHP

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