date_default_timezone_get

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

date_default_timezone_get Récupère le décalage horaire par défaut utilisé par toutes les fonctions date/heure d'un script

Description

date_default_timezone_get(): string

Cette fonction retourne le décalage horaire en suivant l'ordre de préférences suivant :

Si tout ce qui précède échoue, date_default_timezone_get() retournera le décalage horaire par défaut de UTC.

Liste de paramètres

Cette fonction ne contient aucun paramètre.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne une chaîne de caractères.

Exemples

Exemple #1 Récupération du décalage horaire par défaut

<?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');
}

?>

Résultat de l'exemple ci-dessus est similaire à :

date_default_timezone_set : Europe/London
date.timezone : Europe/London

Exemple #2 Récupération de l'abréviation d'un décalage horaire

<?php
date_default_timezone_set
('America/Los_Angeles');
echo
date_default_timezone_get() . ' => ' . date('e') . ' => ' . date('T');
?>

L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :

America/Los_Angeles => America/Los_Angeles => PST

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User Contributed Notes 8 notes

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bohwaz
10 years ago
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
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smcbride at msn dot com
3 years ago
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;

?>
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glennpratt+php at gmail dot com
12 years ago
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());
?>
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andrea at -REMOVE- bhweb dot it
8 years ago
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 );
}
?>
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Damien dot Garrido dot Work at gmail dot com
11 years ago
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
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benrwhite at gmail dot com
10 years ago
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();
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harmor
16 years ago
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
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dohpaz at gmail dot com
16 years ago
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.
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