Online PHP editor | refs for LVmAt

<?php $user_date_str = '2015/11/06 19:27:21'; $user_tz = 'America/Los_Angeles'; $server_tz = 'UTC'; // Get a DateTime object for the user entered time $user_datetime = new DateTime($user_date_str, new DateTimeZone($user_tz) ); // Change time zone to the same as the server $user_datetime->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone($server_tz)); // Get a DateTime object for the current server time //$server_datetime = new DateTime(); // If the PHP timezone isn't set correctly, you can also do: $server_datetime = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone($server_tz) ); var_dump($user_datetime, $server_datetime); // Now compare if ($user_datetime < $server_datetime) { }