(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 3.0.0)
IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone -- datefmt_set_timezone — Sets formatterʼs timezone
Object oriented style
Procedural style
Sets the timezone that will be used when formatting dates or times with this object.
zoneThe timezone to use for this formatter. This can be specified in the following forms:
NULL, in which case the default timezone will be used, as specified in
the ini setting date.timezone or
through the function date_default_timezone_set() and as
returned by date_default_timezone_get().
An IntlTimeZone, which will be used directly.
A DateTimeZone. Its identifier will be extracted and an ICU timezone object will be created; the timezone will be backed by ICUʼs database, not PHPʼs.
A string, which should be a valid ICU timezone identifier. See IntlTimeZone::createTimeZoneIDEnumeration(). Raw offsets such as "GMT+08:30" are also accepted.
Returns TRUE on success and FALSE on failure.
Example #1 IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone() examples
<?php
ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Amsterdam');
$formatter = IntlDateFormatter::create(NULL, NULL, NULL, "UTC");
$formatter->setTimeZone(NULL);
echo "NULL\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone(IntlTimeZone::createTimeZone('Europe/Lisbon'));
echo "IntlTimeZone\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Paris'));
echo "DateTimeZone\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone('Europe/Rome');
echo "String\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone('GMT+00:30');
print_r($formatter->getTimeZone());
The above example will output:
NULL
Europe/Amsterdam
IntlTimeZone
Europe/Lisbon
DateTimeZone
Europe/Paris
String
Europe/Rome
IntlTimeZone Object
(
[valid] => 1
[id] => GMT+00:30
[rawOffset] => 1800000
[currentOffset] => 1800000
)