CodeSOD: Warp Me To Halifax

Greenwich must think they're so smart, being on the prime meridian. Starting in the 1840s, the observatory was the international standard for time (and thus vital for navigation). And even when the world switched to UTC, GMT is only different from that by 0.9s. If you want to convert times between time zones, you do it by comparing against UTC, and you know what?

I'm sick of it. Boy, I wish somebody would take them down a notch. Why is a tiny little strip of London so darn important?

Evan's co-worker obviously agrees with the obvious problem of Greenwich's unearned superiority, and picks a different town to make the center of the world: Halifax.

function time_zone_time($datetime, $time_zone, $savings, $return_format="Y-m-d g:i a"){ date_default_timezone_set('America/Halifax'); $time = strtotime(date('Y-m-d g:i a', strtotime($datetime))); $halifax_gmt = -4; $altered_tdf_gmt = $time_zone; if ($savings && date('I', $time) == 1) { $altered_tdf_gmt++; } // end if if(date('I') == 1){ $halifax_gmt++; } $altered_tdf_gmt -= $halifax_gmt; $new_time = mktime(date("H", $time), date("i", $time), date("s", $time),date("m", $time) ,date("d", $time), date("Y", $time)) + ($altered_tdf_gmt*3600); $new_datetime = date($return_format, $new_time); return $new_datetime;}

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