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<h2 class="title">Changes in PHP <a href="ref.datetime.html" class="link">datetime</a>
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Since PHP 5.1.0, there has been an extension named <em>date</em>
in the PHP core. This is the new implementation of PHP's datetime support.
Although it will attempt to guess your system's timezone setting, you
should set the timezone manually. You can do this in any of three ways:
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in your <var class="filename">php.ini</var> using the
<a href="datetime.configuration.html#ini.date.timezone" class="link">date.timezone</a> INI directive
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on your system using the <var class="varname"><var class="varname">TZ</var></var> environmental variable
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from your script using the convenience function
<span class="function"><a href="function.date-default-timezone-set.html" class="function">date_default_timezone_set()</a></span>
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All supported <a href="timezones.html" class="link">timezones</a> are listed
in the PHP Manual.
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With the advent of PHP 5.2.x, there are <span class="type"><a href="language.types.object.html" class="type object">object</a></span> representations of the
date and timezone, named <em>DateTime</em> and <em>DateTimeZone</em> respectively.
The methods map to existing procedural date functions.
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