How to find day of week in php in a specific timezone
datetime, php, timezone
Solution
$dw = date( "w", $timestamp);
Where $dw will be 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) as you can see here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Problem
I am confused while using php to handle date/time. What I am trying to do is this: When a user visits my page I am asking his timezone and then displaying the 'day of week' in his timezone. I don't want to use the browser's day. I want to do this calculation in php. This is how I am trying to achieve it: - The timezone entered by user - Unix time stamp calculated by php time() function. But I dont know how to proceed... How would i get the 'day of week' in this timezone.