11 November 2022

Working with timezones can be tricky and if you do migration of data from/to somewhere. You might have to correct timezones. This snippet shows how you can change dates based on timezone difference.

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  1. $given = new DateTime("2018-08-30T10:00:00", new DateTimeZone("Europe/Tallinn"));
  2. $given->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone("UTC"));
  3. $output = $given->format("Y-m-d\\TH:i:s"); 
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  5. echo $given->format("Y-m-d\\TH:i:s"); // Output: 2018-08-30T07:00:00
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Programming Language: PHP