How do I get my local timezone name in php?

Question

I need my local timezone name like America/Chicago ?

I have written my code like this

$date = new DateTime();
$timeZone = $date->getTimezone();
echo $timeZone->getName();

But I am getting UTC as output but I don't need this. I need the timeZone name. How can I get it ?

When you say *your* local time zone, do you you mean the time zone on the server? Or the time zone in your browser? (The latter is a JavaScript thing, not a PHP thing.) — Matt Johnson-Pint, Apr 10 '20 at 17:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '20 at 15:53

You are probably getting the timezone set in the server, that's the best you can get. If you want America/Chicago you will need to configure that in the server.

You could also specify the timezone you want to work with when instantiating a new DateTime object, but since the server is probably set as UTC, you need to be careful and juggle the conversion. For instance:

 $dt = new DateTime('2014-06-22 11:10:58', new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
 $dt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone("Europe/Paris"));
 $dateString = $dt->format('Y-m-d h:i:s');

How do I get my local timezone name in php?

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