How to identify Daylight saving Time

[phpmagesh]

Hi All,

I am trying for something in Daylight saving time. I have a eastern time stamp and the timezone (possible timezones CST,EST,PST,MST ,HST). Basically these are two input which is required for my daylight saving time calculation.

If the time zone is CST i have to convert the given eastern timestamp to central timestamp.
like

if ($timezone == "CST")
$central = $eastern - 3600;

Now i have to find whether the given central timestamp ($central) is coming under the Daylight saving time or not. Can some one help me how to find daylight saving is true or false.?

Thanks in advance,

Thanks,
Magesh

[dlite922]

See date() manual.

What you're looking for is the Capital "I" which return 1 if daylight saving (summer march-november) and 0 if not (winter november-march).

So what you could do is some kind of calculation on your timezone, such as:

$cental = $eastern - 3600 + (date('I') * 3600);

if date('I') returns zero, then 0*3600=0 basically adding nothing. If it is daylight savings time, then you add one more hour. IF $eastern is not already in daylight savings time.

Eastern standard time (EST) always equals central daylight time (CDT), in the math above:

$CDT = $EST - 3600 + 3600;
$CDT = $EST + 0;

Hope that helped,


Dan