Timezone And Datetime Conversion

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I’m having some trouble figuring out the best way to do datetime conversions in Yii. I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction.

I have a webapp that does stores a lot of logging of systems that supply information in UTC time (from GPS) and I store that in my DB in UTC.

The forms that I have in my pages use the CJuiDatePicker and that supplies me a date in the form dd/mm/yyyy.

I now face a few things I want to understand;

  • What is the best way to convert the CJuiDatePicker form output in ‘dd/mm/yyyy’ to some sort of datetime class/timestamp?

  • How do I convert my DB UTC time back to the users timezone for presentation?

I already found the dateFormatter but how about timezone converions?