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Request #81083 Another way to get timezone by timeoffset from current one
Submitted: 2021-05-26 19:01 UTC Modified: 2021-06-06 04:22 UTC
From: 6562680 at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Win10
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 [2021-05-26 19:01 UTC] 6562680 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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If you add main geopoint in lat/lng into abbreviations list we have to sort list by diff from current one to get shortest line.

Example: you are in London (UTC). You want to get closest timezone for your clients that tell you they have +3 hours from you.

You write function like getTzOffset(int), call it like getTzOffset(5) - there you should iterate over all abbreviations.

Trying to sort result cities list could become Africa/Madagaskar (first because of alphabetical order), but i hope your clients is somewhere in Europe...

Once we have lat/lng of main point of hour line we can sort by x/y difference to get closest one.

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 [2021-05-26 19:23 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Summary: [ SUGGESTION ] Another way to get timezone by timeoffset from current one +Summary: Another way to get timezone by timeoffset from current one -Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2021-05-26 19:23 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Not sure I follow.

You can already get a list of timezones with DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers() + new DateTimeZone. You can then filter that list with getOffset(the desired time).
It's pretty easy: https://3v4l.org/MTfj6

If there's one bit of room for improvement there, I'd have listIdentifiers optionally return objects instead of strings. (Or create a new method to do that.)

Stuff with coordinates (a) doesn't belong in the PHP core, not least because timezonedb is not part of PHP, and (b) doesn't even make sense because timezones are logically north-south "strips" of the planet, and the timezone "cities" used as identifiers are merely prominent locations chosen according to the rules they follow(ed) for DST transitions.
 [2021-06-06 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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