PHP Date Exercises : Display time in a specified time zone

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28. Display Time in Specified Timezone

Write a PHP script to display time in a specified timezone.

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Set the default timezone to 'America/New_York'
ini_set('date.timezone','America/New_York'); 
// Output the current time in 12-hour format with AM/PM indication
echo '<p>'.date("g:i A").'</p>'."\n";
?>

Output:

7:39 AM

N.B.: The result may varry for your system date and time.

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

ini_set('date.timezone','America/New_York');: Sets the default timezone to 'America/New_York'.
echo '<p>'.date("g:i A").'</p>'."\n";: Outputs the current time in 12-hour format (g:i A) with AM/PM indication wrapped in HTML paragraph (<p>) tags.

Flowchart :

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

Write a PHP script to display the current time for a user-specified timezone, using DateTimeZone and DateTime objects.
Write a PHP function that accepts a timezone string and outputs the current date and time in that timezone, formatted appropriately.
Write a PHP program to convert the server time to multiple specified timezones and output each result in a table.
Write a PHP script to prompt the user for a timezone, then display the current time along with the timezone identifier.

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