One of my latest experience has been to show the correct date time to russian guys.
In order to manage the right local date for each country I have done the following 3 simple steps:
- Store the date in GMT format (Greenwich Mean Time)
- Declare the momentJS in my webpage
- Use the momentJS function to convert the date
Browser will do a right conversion
1) Date Time stored as GMT
I use the followin php function
$today = gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s");
in alternative your can use utc_timestamp, it release the gmt date time
SELECT UTC_TIMESTAMP();
2) Include the Momentjs in the head/head
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.js"></script>
3) In the web page I use the moment javascript
moment.utc(params).local().format('DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm')
The browser will use the client local time to show the right time zone.
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