date() is a PHP function depending on your server settings. You can go around that by using the WordPress function: current_time( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’ ); This function takes the settings in wp-admin into account.
You can check SoJ User Time Zone plugin available on WP Plugin Directory. Also here is a hack using JS if you want to auto detect your User’s TimeZone. By the way, it’s very handy using JS Date object which has getTimeZoneOffset() method, which is keyrole player.
date() is unreliable in WP since it always resets time zone to UTC and uses its own processing for time zones. date_i18n() is usually preferable WP replacement, but it will also localize output, which might be unwanted. What you want for correct unlocalized output is to: Get data out of WP API without its offset … Read more
The solution was to apt-get remove tzdata apt-get install tzdata while dpkg-reconfigure tzdata was not enough. Mark’s edit: In human words, the problem was caused because the time zone data on the server was incorrect, which probably had an impact how php calculates times. The solution was to forcefully update the data.
Edit: wp_next_scheduled() returns the timestamp of the next scheduled job of a specified wp-cron job-arguments pair. Please note that this differs slightly in functionality to the answer below, in that you have to provide the arguments passed to cron job’s callback (if it has any). The original answer would provide the time of the next … Read more
I’m not sure why EliasNS’ answer is marked correct, as far as I’m aware (and from the documentation), the second parameter of DateTime::__construct(), if provided, should be a DateTimeZone instance. The problem then becomes, how we do we create a DateTimeZone instance. This is easy if the user has selected a city as their timezone, … Read more
Somehow I missed the current_time function, which gives a good description of the situation and how to properly deal with the need to get the current blog-local time. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_time Though the purist in me still hates how WP makes the time zone setting in php.ini obsolete without giving you a choice. *grumble grumble*
if you need the gmt_offset then <?php echo get_option(‘gmt_offset’); ?> this will give you an integer like 2 or -2. and if you need the timezone string use <?php echo get_option(‘timezone_string’); ?> this will give you a string like America/Indianapolis