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Notable PHP package: PHP Timezone Names

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Many applications need to deal with the local time in different zones of the world.

Each time zone has an abbreviated name but humans understand better a more readable name.

This class can return the names of timezone either in short and full form, so applications can display the full name form in a user friendly manner.

Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.




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The package PHP Timezone Names is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Get the timezone name in full or abbreviated

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This class can get the timezone name in full or abbreviated and its offset.

It takes as parameters a string with the name of a timezone and a flag indicating if it is being considered the daylight savings.

The class can retrieve a list of known timezone names from a JSON configuration file and returns the given timezone full name, the abbreviated name and offset from UTC.

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