Auto-Local Time Display Shortcode
In this article: About Time Zone DKI | Time Zone DKI Usages
About the Auto-Local Time Display Shortcode
The If-So Auto-Local Time Display shortcode helps you reach visitors across the globe by showing an event time calculated according to their visitor’s time zone.
Make sure no one misses out on your events, sales, and promotions again due to unfortunate and preventable calculation mistakes.
Real-life example
25.10 | 17:00 UTC
22:00 according to your time zone (Hong_Kong)
Shortcodes used in the above example:
[ifsoDKI type="time" show="user-geo-timezone-sensitive" time="10/25 17:00" format="G:i"] according to your time zone ([ifsoDKI type="geo" show="timezone"])Use Cases
- Display when your webinar will start in a visitor’s time zone
- Show your operating hours according to the time zone your visitors are located
A simple shortcode does the math for you
Displaying the time calculated according to the user’s time zone is done by implementing a simple shortcode. In addition to the time and the date, the shortcode allows you complete control of the display format (i.e. January 5, 5/1/2022, .06.31.22, etc.)
How to use the shortcode on your website
- Copy the shortcode below and paste it on your site
[ifsoDKI type='time' show='user-geo-timezone-sensitive' time='04/25/2022 08:00' format='n/j/o, G:i']- Set the time and date of your event (the date is in American format mm/dd/yyyy).The time you set in the shortcode corresponds to your website’s timezone settings (Settings > General on your WordPress Dashboard).
- Set the outputted date format (see the “Time Formatting” section below)
Time Formatting
Defining the outputted date format can easily be done using the shortcode’s “Format” parameter. Setting the format is done using letters that represent a date value.
For example, the letter “D” will output a textual representation of a day in three letters, the letter “j” will output the day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31), etc
The table below specifies some of the most popular date formats. A full list of the date formats can be found here.
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| D | A textual representation of a day, three letters | Mon through Sun |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| l (lowercase ‘L’) | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday through Saturday |
| N | ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week | 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters | st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
| z | The day of the year (starting from 0) | 0 through 365 |
| Week | — | — |
| W | ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday | Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year) |
| Month | — | — |
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January through December |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| M | A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Jan through Dec |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| t | Number of days in the given month | 28 through 31 |
| Year | — | — |
| L | Whether it’s a leap year | 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise. |
| o | ISO-8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
| Time | — | — |
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
| B | Swatch Internet time | 000 through 999 |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 through 23 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 through 23 |
| i | Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds with leading zeros | 00 through 59 |
| u | Microseconds. Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an int parameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds. | Example: 654321 |
| v | Milliseconds (added in PHP 7.0.0). Same note applies as for u. | Example: 654 |
| Time zone | — | — |
| e | Time zone identifier | Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores |
| I (capital i) | Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time | 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise. |
| O | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes | Example: +0200 |
| P | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes | Example: +02:00 |
| p | The same as P, but returns Z instead of +00:00 | Example: +02:00 |
| T | Time zone abbreviation | Examples: EST, MDT … |
| Z | Time zone offset in seconds. The offset for time zones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. | -43200 through 50400 |
| Full Date/Time | — | — |
| c | ISO 8601 date | 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 |
| r | » RFC 2822 formatted date | Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
| U | Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) | See also time() |
Example:
Shortcode
[ifsoDKI type='time' show='user-geo-timezone-sensitive' time='04/25/2022 08:00' format='n/j/o, G:i']Result
4/25/2022, 13:00
Best Practice
The Auto-Local Time Display is based on an IP-to-location service that detects the user’s location and time zone. By nature, no IP-to-location service is 100% accurate. Though we do everything we can in order to be as accurate as possible, including basing our service on IPinfo, a top-level provider which updates the database regularly, there might be cases in which the user’s location will not be detected correctly.
Live Example:
World Meditation Event
January 20, 18:30 UTC
2:30 – 0:42, Dec 22 based on your current time zone (HKT)
For your convenience, here is the code we used to create this message. The first shortcode displays the time and the date and the second one displays the user’s time zone in the yellow text box.
[ifsoDKI type='time' show='user-geo-timezone-sensitive' time='04/25/2022 08:00' format='n/j/o, G:i'] according to your timezone ([ifsoDKI type='time' show='user-geo-timezone-sensitive' time='04/25/2022 08:00' format='T'])Setting up a recurring event
If you want to set up a recurring event, such as an event that occurs every Monday at a specific time, you can configure the ‘time’ parameter as follows:
[ifsoDKI type='time' show='user-geo-timezone-sensitive' time='Monday 07:30' format='n/j/o, G:i']