Marcus Bointon wrote: > Much of the point of using zone names rather than fixed numeric > offsets is that it allows for correct daylight savings calculations > (assuming that locale data is correct on the server). > > Let me rephrase the question - how can I get the current time in a > named time zone using strtotime and without using a numeric offset? This may not be the cleanest way to approach it, but this is what I use and it Works For Me(TM): $timeZoneMap = array( 'EST5EDT' => 'Eastern Time', 'CST6CDT' => 'Central Time', 'MST7MDT' => 'Mountain Time', 'PST8PDT' => 'Pacific Time' ); $currentTime = time(); foreach ($timeZoneMap as $envVar => $timeZone) { putenv("TZ=$envVar"); print "The current time in $timeZone is "; print strftime('%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p %Z', $currentTime)."\n"; } HTH -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php