How to set the default timezone to the user's local timezone in PHP?

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I want to set default timezone to the user's local timezone, please find my code below:

date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Karachi");
$currentHour = date('h:i');

My code works correctly, but only works only for Karachi; if user in other country it may not works.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5607444/4248328 And http://stackoverflow.com/a/16529135/4248328 — Alive to die - Anant, Feb 16 '17 at 07:06
Are you suspecting it'll not work or you really know it doesn't work? — Suresh, Feb 16 '17 at 07:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '17 at 07:15

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You can't get a user's timezone on the server side, and you can only make a guess at it on the client side.

If you rely on getting the user's IP address then you could geolocate that and deduce a time.

The way this is usually done is by asking the user (when they register, for instance) what timezone they are in and then use this in your time calculations.

Or use this javascript solution

http://www.onlineaspect.com/2007/06/08/auto-detect-a-time-zone-with-javascript/

answered Feb 16 '17 at 07:15

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its return -300 but how can i use this for get time zone in php – Ehsan Ilahi Feb 16 '17 at 07:32
if you want to pass timezone from client side to server side .. u should use ajax – NID Feb 16 '17 at 08:50
refer this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13/determine-a-users-timezone.. this will help u – NID Feb 16 '17 at 08:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 07:10

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If you want to make timezone global and not fix to a single timzone then I guess you should use UTC timezone and there are two part of this one is for America and one for rest of the world.

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answered Feb 16 '17 at 07:10

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How to set the default timezone to the user's local timezone in PHP?

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