My first one - the standards/cities of timezone display

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:


The text generated by that (sorry, live demo is not up yet )



What to do:

Edit global.php. Find this text:

PHP Code:

$timediff='';
if ($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']!=0) {
  if (abs($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset'])==1) {
    $timediff=" $bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset] hour";
  } else {
    $timediff=" $bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset] hours";
  }
} 

Then right below that add this:

PHP Code:

switch ($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']) {

    case (-12):
        $timezonetext="Eniwetok, Kwajalein";
    break;

    case (-11):
        $timezonetext="Midway Island, Samoa";
    break;

    case (-10):
        $timezonetext="US-Hawaii";
    break;

    case (-9):
        $timezonetext="US-Alaska";
    break;

    case (-8):
        $timezonetext="US/Pacific Time (US & Canada)";
    break;

    case (-7):
        $timezonetext="US/Mountain Time (US & Canada)";
    break;

    case (-6):
        $timezonetext="US/Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City";
    break;

    case (-5):
        $timezonetext="US/Eastern Time (US & Canada)";
    break;

    case (-4):
        $timezonetext="Atlantic Time (Canada), Caracas, La Paz";
    break;

    case (-3.5):
        $timezonetext="Newfoundland";

    case (-3):
        $timezonetext="Brazil, Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
    break;

    case (-2):
        $timezonetext="Mid-Atlantic";
    break;

    case (-1):
        $timezonetext="Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
    break;

    case (0):
        $timezonetext="Western Europe Time, London, Casablanca";
    break;

    case (1):
        $timezonetext="Central Europe Time, Brussels, Copenhagen, Paris";
    break;

    case (2):
        $timezonetext="Eastern Europe Time, Kaliningrad, South Africa";
    break;

    case (3):
        $timezonetext="Moscow, St. Petersburg, Baghdad, Kuwait";
    break;

    case (3.5):
        $timezonetext="Tehran";
    break;

    case (4):
        $timezonetext="Muscat, Baku, Tbilisi";
    break;

    case (4.5):
        $timezonetext="Kabul";
    break;

    case (5):
        $timezonetext="Ekaterinburg, Islamabad";
    break;

    case (5.5):
        $timezonetext="Bombay, New Delhi";
    break;

    case (6):
        $timezonetext="Almaty, Dhaka";
    break;

    case (7):
        $timezonetext="Bangkok, Hanoi";
    break;

    case (8):
        $timezonetext="Beijing, Perth, Singapore, Hong Kong";

    case (9):
        $timezonetext="Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka";
    break;

    case (9.5):
        $timezonetext="Adelaide, Darwin";
    break;

    case (10):
        $timezonetext="Eastern Australian Standard, Guam, Papua New Guinea, Vladivostok";
    break;

    case (11):
        $timezonetext="Magadan, Solomon Islands";
    break;

    case (12):
        $timezonetext="Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Kamchatka";
    break;

} 

Hope someone finds this usefull besides me.

[LuBi]

Sounds good, have an ss?

[Stoned Gecko]

What's an SS?

[Floris]

SS (ScreenShot)

[Stoned Gecko]

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