- Some countries are not listed at all, e.g. British Virgin Islands (Road Town), Malawi (Lilongwe), Sint Maarten (Philipsburg)
For British Virgin Islands use America/Tortola.
For Malawi use Africa/Blantyre.
For Sint Maarten use America/Lower_Princes.
List of Supported Timezones
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Here you'll find the complete list of timezones supported by PHP, which are meant to be used with e.g. date_default_timezone_set().
Caution
The behavior of timezones not listed here is undefined.
Note: The latest version of the timezone database can be installed via PECL's » timezonedb.
Note: This list is based upon the timezone database version 2019.2.
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User Contributed Notes 2 notes
Marc Moisan ¶
4 months ago
Mark ¶
1 year ago
Some interesting peculiarities:
- Montreal (Quebec) is missing; use America/Toronto instead.
- Most countries are listed by their capital cities, but some are listed by their country name:
— Jamaica instead of Kingston
— Malta instead of Valletta
— Costa Rica instead of San José
— Puerto Rico instead of San Juan
— Qatar instead of Doha
...or their largest city:
— Guayaquil instead of Quito, Ecuador
— Casablanca instead of Rabat, Morocco
— Karachi instead of Islamabad, Pakistan
— Johannesburg instead of Pretoria / Bloemfontein / Cape Town, South Africa
- Some countries are not listed at all, e.g. British Virgin Islands (Road Town), Malawi (Lilongwe), Sint Maarten (Philipsburg)
