date_timezone_set

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0)

date_timezone_set — Alias of DateTime::setTimezone()

Description

This function is an alias of: DateTime::setTimezone()

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Return Value



Returns NULL on success or FALSE on failure.



Example



Following is the usage of this function:



<?php

   $dateSrc = '2007-04-19 12:50 GMT';

   $dateTime = date_create( $dateSrc);

   $DateTimeZone = timezone_open ( 'America/Chicago' );

   date_timezone_set( $dateTime, $DateTimeZone );

   $NewDateTimeZone = date_timezone_get($dateTime);

   echo 'New timeZone is '. timezone_name_get($NewDateTimeZone);

   echo "\n";



   # Using second function.

   $dateTime = new DateTime($dateSrc);

   $DateTimeZone = timezone_open ( 'America/Chicago' );

   $dateTime->setTimezone( $DateTimeZone );

   $NewDateTimeZone = $dateTime->getTimezone ();

   echo 'New timeZone is '. timezone_name_get ($NewDateTimeZone);

?> 



This will produce following result:



New timeZone is America/Chicago

New timeZone is America/Chicago

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