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<h1 class="refname">timezone_name_from_abbr</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.1.3)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">timezone_name_from_abbr</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the timezone name from abbreviation</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.timezone-name-from-abbr-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>timezone_name_from_abbr</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$abbr</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$gmtOffset</code><span class="initializer"> = -1</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$isdst</code><span class="initializer"> = -1</span></span>
]] )</div>
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.timezone-name-from-abbr-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">abbr</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Time zone abbreviation.
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</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">gmtOffset</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Offset from GMT in seconds. Defaults to -1 which means that first found
time zone corresponding to <em><code class="parameter">abbr</code></em> is returned.
Otherwise exact offset is searched and only if not found then the first
time zone with any offset is returned.
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</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">isdst</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Daylight saving time indicator. Defaults to -1, which means that
whether the time zone has daylight saving or not is not taken into
consideration when searching. If this is set to 1, then the
<em><code class="parameter">gmtOffset</code></em> is assumed to be an offset with
daylight saving in effect; if 0, then <em><code class="parameter">gmtOffset</code></em>
is assumed to be an offset without daylight saving in effect. If
<em><code class="parameter">abbr</code></em> doesn't exist then the time zone is
searched solely by the <em><code class="parameter">gmtOffset</code></em> and
<em><code class="parameter">isdst</code></em>.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.timezone-name-from-abbr-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns time zone name on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.timezone-name-from-abbr-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<div class="example" id="example-2326">
<p><strong>Example #1 A <span class="function"><strong>timezone_name_from_abbr()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">timezone_name_from_abbr</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"CET"</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">timezone_name_from_abbr</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">""</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">3600</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
<div class="example-contents screen">
<div class="cdata"><pre>
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Paris
</pre></div>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.timezone-name-from-abbr-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.timezone-abbreviations-list.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">timezone_abbreviations_list()</a> - Alias of DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations</span></li>
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