PHP timezone_name_from_abbr Function

Definition :

In php timezone_name_from_abbr() Function is inbuilt function.PHP timezone_name_from_abbr() function is used to return the timezone name from the given abbreviation. The abbreviation is passed to it as a parameter. It returns the name of the timezone as output on success and False on failure.

Syntax:

timezone_name_from_abbr(abbr, gmtoffset, isdst)

Parameter:

Parameter	Description
abbr	Required. Specifies the timezone abbreviation
gmtoffset	Optional. Specifies the offset from GMT in seconds. Default is -1, which means that first found timezone corresponding to abbr is returned. Otherwise exact offset is searched. If not found, the first timezone with any offset is returned
isdst	Optional. Specifies daylight saving time indicator. -1 = Default. Whether the timezone has daylight saving or not is not taken into consideration when searching 1 = Means that the gmtoffset is an offset with daylight saving in effect 0 = Means that the gmtoffset is an offset without daylight saving in effect

Given below example return the timezone name from abbreviation:

Output :

America/Chicago
America/New_York
Europe/Paris
Asia/Kolkata
Europe/Paris