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Simple question,

I want to display the time based on the time zone of my clients headquarters despite who views the site. If they are over seas I want them to see what time it is here EST. How is this accomplished?

Not sure if my server is in the same time zone as my client or not.

Check out:  http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/hs-localize-date

Good luck!

Hey thefifthlion,

Thank you for posting your question.

What do you think of the Localize Date Add-On that Enviromed has mentioned? Looks like it may do the job.

Please let us know!

Cheers,

I think my question is a little more basic. I want to show the current time based on a time zone. I as assuming it would look like this?

{current_time zone="EST" format="%g:%i"}

Hey thefifthlion,

zone= is not a valid parameter. Where did you see that?

You would probably need to use %Q which is local server time zone offset, in hours and seconds, against GMT. Or you can use %O which is the difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours.

Does that make sense?

Cheers,

I was just guessing. It seems like the options you listed would work. I’ll see if I can figure out the offset from GMT.

Hey thefifthlion,

Sounds good.

Is there anything else I can help with?

Cheers,

Just thought I would share my solution for any else new to this sort of thing. I had used {current_time format="%g %i"} and it was outputting a time that was an hour off. Then I realized the time must be based on the time zone of my server’s location. So I went into my control panel under “localization settings” and offset the time “-60 minutes” to correct for my clients time zone and now everything works great.

thanks,
leo

Hey leo,

Thanks for letting us know!!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,