How can I output saved timezone shorthand (GMT, UTC, EST etc) in Laravel

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So, basically I have a client that wants the timezone of his event to be displayed based on the timezone selected for the event e.g

Date: April 20, 2020

Location: Canada, Ontario

Time: 7:00pm

Time Zone: US/Eastern

Displayed as: 7:00pm (GMT) - > this should be equivalent to a shorthand of whatever Time Zone is chosen e.g (EST) and so on - and not the UTC equivalent (UTC-06:00)

I made him select timezones using https://github.com/camroncade/timezone

which uses the string representation of a time zone (US/Eastern)

I have these fields in my database to receive the inputs from my client on creation:

    $table->date('eventdate');
    $table->time('eventdaystarttime');
    $table->time('eventdayendtime');
    $table->string('eventtimezone');

My question is how to get the Shorthand of the Time Zone (eventtimezone) my client selected on creating the event (US/Eastern) and display it as this 7:00 pm (GMT) when outputting it in my blade.view file

I am working on the project now, and my deadline is for Tuesday! This is the only part left for me to complete the project. — OlaJ
@PaulT. Thanks for the reference - it helped me find what I needed using momentjs momentjs. — OlaJ

umefarooq umefarooq · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-01T05:31:09

You can get timezone abbreviations / shorthand with php like this

$date = new DateTime('April 20, 2020');
$date->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('US/Eastern'));
echo $date->format('T');

if you save supported timezone as listed on link below you can get them with carbon easily because US/Eastern doesn't work with carbon.

$tz = CarbonTimeZone::create('America/New_York');
echo $tz->getAbbr();

American timezone

https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php

Rest of World you can find here

https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

How can I output saved timezone shorthand (GMT, UTC, EST etc) in Laravel

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