Sets formatterʼs timezone

IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneId
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# IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone

# datefmt_set_timezone

(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PECL intl >= 3.0.0)

IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone -- datefmt_set_timezone — Sets formatterʼs timezone

### Description

Object oriented style

public boolean IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone ( mixed `$zone` )

Procedural style

boolean datefmt_set_timezone ( mixed `$zone` )

Sets the timezone that will be used when formatting dates or times with this object.

### Parameters

`zone`

  The timezone to use for this formatter. This can be specified in the following forms:

  - `NULL`, in which case the default timezone will be used, as specified in the ini setting date.timezone or through the function date_default_timezone_set() and as returned by date_default_timezone_get().

  - An IntlTimeZone, which will be used directly.

  - A DateTimeZone. Its identifier will be extracted and an ICU timezone object will be created; the timezone will be backed by ICUʼs database, not PHPʼs.

  - A string, which should be a valid ICU timezone identifier. See IntlTimeZone::createTimeZoneIDEnumeration(). Raw offsets such as "GMT+08:30" are also accepted.

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success and `FALSE` on failure.

### Examples

Example #1 IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone() examples

`<?php
ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Amsterdam');
$formatter = IntlDateFormatter::create(NULL, NULL, NULL, "UTC");
$formatter->setTimeZone(NULL);
echo "NULL\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone(IntlTimeZone::createTimeZone('Europe/Lisbon'));
echo "IntlTimeZone\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Paris'));
echo "DateTimeZone\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone('Europe/Rome');
echo "String\n ", $formatter->getTimeZone()->getId(), "\n";
$formatter->setTimeZone('GMT+00:30');
print_r($formatter->getTimeZone());`

The above example will output:

    NULL
        Europe/Amsterdam
    IntlTimeZone
        Europe/Lisbon
    DateTimeZone
        Europe/Paris
    String
        Europe/Rome
    IntlTimeZone Object
    (
        [valid] => 1
        [id] => GMT+00:30
        [rawOffset] => 1800000
        [currentOffset] => 1800000
    )

### See Also

- IntlDateFormatter::getTimeZone() - Get formatterʼs timezone

IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneId
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