How to convert GMT time to IST?

Question

Here I am getting GMT Time as follow.

1520489880

Now I am getting This as

$myfinaldate = gmdate("d M H:i", $strtoDate);

So it will returns me GMT time. Now i want to convet it to IST(indian standard time).

where I stuck when I try

//Set timezone to india
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

But this returns me current time not the time that I get in strtotime

Have you seen this answer? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13216185/php-converting-gmt-to-ist — Ken Sawyerr, Mar 08 '18 at 06:30

sorak · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-08T06:44:22.093

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You need to pass the timestamp:

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
echo date('d M H:i', $strToDate); // where $strToDate is 1520489880

Would produce the following value:

08 Mar 11:48

edited Mar 08 '18 at 06:44

answered Mar 08 '18 at 06:32

sorak

So no use of `gmdate("d M H:i", $strtoDate)` ?? – Mar 08 '18 at 06:32
sure, they're the same – sorak Mar 08 '18 at 06:33
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Maybe its not same @sorak. date is that the time returned is your time zone. and gmdate is that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). – TarangP Mar 08 '18 at 06:36
Oh, I was referring to the use of the variable. Yeah, you need to set the timezone to Kolkata, and gmdate implicitly sets it incorrectly. – sorak Mar 08 '18 at 06:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '18 at 07:27

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You can convert GMT time to IST time using following ways :

1.

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('+330 minutes', 0));

2.

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

answered Mar 08 '18 at 07:27

Hiren Makwana

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '18 at 13:43

Changing default timezone is not such a good idea. Use DateTime class, any you don't need to worry about default timezone anymore...

$dt = new DateTime("@$strToDate");
$dt->setTimezone(new DateTimezone('Asia/Kolkata'));
echo $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

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