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DateTimeZone::getOffset

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(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Returns the timezone offset from GMT

Description

Oop

DateTimeZone::getOffset(DateTimeInterface $datetime): int

Procedural

timezone_offset_get(DateTimeZone $object, DateTimeInterface $datetime): int

This function returns the offset to GMT for the date/time specified in the datetime parameter. The GMT offset is calculated with the timezone information contained in the DateTimeZone object being used.

Parameters

datetime

DateTime that contains the date/time to compute the offset from.

Return Values

Returns time zone offset in seconds.

Examples

DateTimeZone::getOffset() examples

php
<?php
// Create two timezone objects, one for Taipei (Taiwan) and one for
// Tokyo (Japan)
$dateTimeZoneTaipei = new DateTimeZone("Asia/Taipei");
$dateTimeZoneJapan = new DateTimeZone("Asia/Tokyo");

// Create two DateTime objects that will contain the same Unix timestamp, but
// have different timezones attached to them.
$dateTimeTaipei = new DateTime("now", $dateTimeZoneTaipei);
$dateTimeJapan = new DateTime("now", $dateTimeZoneJapan);

// Calculate the GMT offset for the date/time contained in the $dateTimeTaipei
// object, but using the timezone rules as defined for Tokyo
// ($dateTimeZoneJapan).
$timeOffset = $dateTimeZoneJapan->getOffset($dateTimeTaipei);

// Should show int(32400) (for dates after Sat Sep 8 01:00:00 1951 JST).
var_dump($timeOffset);

The above example will output:

output
int(32400)

Source: reference/datetime/datetimezone/getoffset.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)