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This may be a duplicate but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
I want to store dates given by the client in UTC. I have a javascript library that detects the client's timezone and I'm sending the timezone name (e.g. America/Halifax) to the server with the rest of the form data.
I've been searching now for the php functions that I can use to take the date entered and the timezone and convert it to UTC.
I think gmdate is the correct function but how do I use the date entered and the timezone with gmdate?
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Try setting date_default_timezone_set('America/Halifax') at the top of your script.