I hate doing this, but you could use Javascript to use the date and time set on the clients computer. You can't control how they have it set though. On 1/5/06 1:13 PM, "Mark Steudel" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Im just using it to set defaults on a QuickForm date element. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Tuller [mailto:php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:02 AM > To: Mark Steudel > Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Timezone and DST > > Are you just displaying the time, or is this for submission in a database? > > > On Jan 5, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Mark Steudel wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I've got a little problem where our servers are in PST but the >> customer operates in Hawaii (-10 GMT). I believe I can just get the >> time for them by doing something like >> >> date("d H i", strtotime('now -2 hours') ); >> >> But here's the catch, how should I deal with day light savings ( DST) >> . In hawaii they don't observer DST, but in Washington State we do. >> >> We're on php 4.x so I can't use the date_default_timezone_set >> <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone- >> set.php> that >> was added in PHP 5 >> >> Thanks, Mark >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php