How to get Unix timestamp in php based on timezone

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    echo time() . '<br/>';
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . '<br/>';
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York'); 

echo time() . '<br/>';
print_r($timezones[$timezone] . '<br/>');
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . '<br/>';

In the above code the date is printed according to timezone but unix timestamp is same even after setting default timezone

How can we print unix timestamp according to timezone?

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The answer provided by Volkerk (that says timestamps are meant to be always UTC based) is correct, but if you really need a workaround (to make timezone based timestamps) look at my example.

<?php

//default timezone
$date = new DateTime(null);
echo 'Default timezone: '.$date->getTimestamp().'<br />'."rn";

//America/New_York
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
echo 'America/New_York: '.$date->getTimestamp().'<br />'."rn";

//Europe/Amsterdam
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam'));
echo 'Europe/Amsterdam: '.$date->getTimestamp().'<br />'."rn";

echo 'WORK AROUND<br />'."rn";
// WORK AROUND
//default timezone
$date = new DateTime(null);
echo 'Default timezone: '.($date->getTimestamp() + $date->getOffset()).'<br />'."rn";

//America/New_York
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
echo 'America/New_York: '.($date->getTimestamp() + $date->getOffset()).'<br />'."rn";

//Europe/Amsterdam
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam'));
echo 'Europe/Amsterdam: '.($date->getTimestamp() + $date->getOffset()).'<br />'."rn";
?>

Get the regular timestamp and add the UTC offset

Monday, August 15, 2022

valerii.gushchin.8.11.1951-83e0999fdddf

You can use the php date function to get the date and time.

echo date('Y-m-d h:i:s',$item->timestamp);

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

matiash

Use modulo.

$prev = 1330518155 - (1330518155 % 1800);
$next = $prev + 1800;

The modulo operator gives the remainder part of division.

Sunday, September 11, 2022

andrey_tagaew

Why not simply send the date in UTC, and then convert to your timezone on the server?

var utcEpochSeconds = dateObj.getTime() + (dateObj.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);

Thursday, December 1, 2022

rick_sanchez

Should you not be passing in your @searchterm into your Vendor.search method? Passing 'checkpoint' each time probably isn't going to do the trick.
@searchvendor is going to contain an Array as you are doing find(:all). You'll need to iterate over the array and do .name on each item.

Sunday, August 21, 2022

elbert_villarreal

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