Please note that on Debian/Ubuntu this function will return the system timezone defined in /etc/localtime if date.timezone is not defined, even with PHP 5.4+
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673763#10
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
date_default_timezone_get — Obtiene la zona horaria predeterminada usada por todas las funciones de fecha/hora en un script
En orden de preferencia, esta función devuelve la zona horaria predeternimada mediante:
Leer la zona horaria usando la función date_default_timezone_set() (si hay alguna)
Sólo antes de PHP 5.4.0: Leer la variable de entorno TZ (si no está vacía)
Leer el valor de la opción ini date.timezone (si está establecida)
Sólo antes de PHP 5.4.0: Preguntar al sistema operativo (siempre que el SO lo soporte y lo permita). Utiliza un algoritmo que debe estimar la zona horaria. No funcionará de forma necesariamente correcta en todas las situaciones posibles. Si se diera este caso, se mostrará una alerta. No se aconseja depender de esta función. En su lugar, debe establecerse la zona horaria correcta con date.timezone
Si nada de lo de arriba sucedió, date_default_timezone_get()
devolverá una zona horaria predeterminada de UTC
.
Devuelve un string.
Versión | Descripción |
---|---|
5.4.0 |
La variable de entorno TZ ya no se usa para
adivinar la zona horaria.
|
5.4.0 | La zona horaria ya no se adivina de la información disponible a través del sistema operativo, la zona horaria adivinada no puede invocarse. |
Ejemplo #1 Obtener la zona horaria por defecto
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
if (date_default_timezone_get()) {
echo 'date_default_timezone_set: ' . date_default_timezone_get() . '<br />';
}
if (ini_get('date.timezone')) {
echo 'date.timezone: ' . ini_get('date.timezone');
}
?>
El resultado del ejemplo sería algo similar a:
date_default_timezone_set: Europe/London date.timezone: Europe/London
Ejemplo #2 Obtener la abreviatura de una zona horaria
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date_default_timezone_get() . ' => ' . date('e') . ' => ' . date('T');
?>
El resultado del ejemplo sería:
America/Los_Angeles => America/Los_Angeles => PST
Please note that on Debian/Ubuntu this function will return the system timezone defined in /etc/localtime if date.timezone is not defined, even with PHP 5.4+
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673763#10
In my case, I'm not sure I can guess the correct timezone any better than PHP and it's no where near important enough to nag the user, so...
<?php
// Suppress DateTime warnings
date_default_timezone_set(@date_default_timezone_get());
?>
This function is not very useful for getting the OS timezone. One way to do it is to look at the results of 'timedatectl' from the OS. You can also look at the link from /etc/localtime
>file /etc/localtime
/etc/localtime: symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
>timedatectl
Local time: Thu 2020-12-24 07:11:27 PST
Universal time: Thu 2020-12-24 15:11:27 UTC
RTC time: Thu 2020-12-24 15:11:27
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PST, -0800)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no
<?php
$dateinfo = trim(shell_exec("timedatectl | grep -i zone: 2>/dev/null"));
$dateinfoarray = explode(' ', $dateinfo);
echo 'Timezone = ' . $dateinfoarray[2] . PHP_EOL;
?>
Please note that "Damien dot Garrido dot Work at gmail dot com" code is wrong, the third parameter of sprintf must be divided by 60.
This is the corrected function:
<?php
function timezone_offset_string( $offset )
{
return sprintf( "%s%02d:%02d", ( $offset >= 0 ) ? '+' : '-', abs( $offset / 3600 ), abs( $offset % 3600 ) / 60 );
}
?>
You can use this function to convert given UTC datetime string to your application's local datetime:
<?php
function utc_to_local($utcDatetime, $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s')
{
$currentTimeZone = date_default_timezone_get();
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$localDatetime = (new DateTime($utcDatetime))
->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone($currentTimeZone));
date_default_timezone_set($currentTimeZone);
return $localDatetime->format($format);
}
To get offset string from offset:
<?php
function timezone_offset_string( $offset )
{
return sprintf( "%s%02d:%02d", ( $offset >= 0 ) ? '+' : '-', abs( $offset / 3600 ), abs( $offset % 3600 ) );
}
$offset = timezone_offset_get( new DateTimeZone( 'Pacific/Kiritimati' ), new DateTime() );
echo "offset: " . timezone_offset_string( $offset ) . "\n";
$offset = timezone_offset_get( new DateTimeZone( 'Pacific/Tahiti' ), new DateTime() );
echo "offset: " . timezone_offset_string( $offset ) . "\n";
?>
Output:
offset: +14:00
offset: -10:00
For the reason that date_default_timezone_get() throws an error when the timezone isn't set in php.ini and then returns a default chosen by the system (rather than returning false to indicate to the script that a timezone hasn't been set), I've found that the following works when you want a script to detect when the ini value has not been set and want the script itself to choose a default in that case, while still allowing bootstrap scripts to set their own default using date_default_timezone_set().
<?php
set_error_handler(function ($errno, $errstr){
throw new Exception($errstr);
return false;
});
try{
date_default_timezone_get();
}
catch(Exception $e){
date_default_timezone_set('UTC'); // Sets to UTC if not specified anywhere in .ini
}
restore_error_handler();
If you want to get the abbrivation (3 or 4 letter), instead of the long timezone string you can use date('T') function like this:
Input:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date_default_timezone_get();
echo ' => '.date('e');
echo ' => '.date('T');
Output:
America/Los_Angeles => America/Los_Angeles => PST
date_default_timezone_get() will still emit a warning in E_STRICT if the timezone is not set; either by date_default_timezone_set() or the ini option of date.timezone.
This is probably not a big deal, but I thought I would contribute what I found.