My first one - the standards/cities of timezone display

[Stoned Gecko]

Preface:
I wanted to display the actual timezone text on the forum in addition to the GMT offset. Since I couldn't find anything here, I did it myself. Now I'm sure there is an easier way of doing this, however I have never touched PHP before. So this is the only way I could figure out how to do this. However since I managed to do it, I thought I'd share it :).

What it does:
This basically creates a $timezonetext variable that can be used in templates. The variable contains the text for the appropriate timezone the user selected. For example if the user selected GMT -8, $timezone would contain "US/Pacific Time (US & Canada)".

What it looks like:
The contents of the timezone template:
http://forums.sygatetech.com/tzhack/tztemp.gif

The text generated by that (sorry, live demo is not up yet :))
http://forums.sygatetech.com/tzhack/tzss.gif


What to do:

Edit global.php. Find this text:



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Then right below that add this:



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Hope someone finds this usefull besides me. :D

[LuBi]

Sounds good, have an ss?

[Stoned Gecko]

What's an SS? :confused:

[Floris]

SS (ScreenShot)

[Stoned Gecko]

Sorry for the lag. Screen shots are on the top post.