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I'm using CodeIgniter and I have tons of date('format',strtotime(unixtimestamp)) methods in my views.

So when user choose his own language and I would like to automatically convert all datetimes to locale time zone for all my views.

Is there any recursive way to make this possible?

The infos i get from users is their selected language:
it = Italian
fr = French
es = Espanol
etc... so i get lang key codes

I sincerely can't get anything out of my head.

Any help appreciated, really. Thanks.

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Depending how you store the timezone preference, you could use date_default_timezone_set().

For example:

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

Note: I'm not familiar with CodeIgnitor, but so long as you set this in a bootstrap or config script, that is before you call date(), this will automatically display all dates in the set locale.

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yes sorry, check i edited my question with infos i get from users probably i need somenthing different !? – sbaaaang Jul 29 '13 at 18:05
    
oh sorry note i'm using php method datetime() to ouput dates, so i'm not using the date helper – sbaaaang Jul 29 '13 at 18:06
    
The DateTime class you mean? Again, I'm not familiar with CodeIgnitor. – Jason McCreary Jul 29 '13 at 18:08
    
eheh nope, php datetime() php native ;) – sbaaaang Jul 29 '13 at 19:27
    
There is no such function, datetime() in PHP. – Jason McCreary Jul 29 '13 at 19:31

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