{"id":60122,"date":"2017-12-01T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=60122"},"modified":"2021-05-26T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:38:03","slug":"local-time-london-display-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Time in London &#8211; Display in a WordPress website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long while back, I wrote a short piece about how to make Linux servers set their local time to Europe -&gt; London, which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/linux-apache-server-set-local-time-to-london-uk-europe\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m going to show you how to post a quick snippet into your WordPress to allow you to display what the local time is anywhere in the world. For us, we are on Europe\/London time, and so, below, here is that very feature:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662df3b5a708f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662df3b5a708f\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/#Local_Time_in_London_is_now_time\" title=\"Local Time in London is [now_time]\">Local Time in London is [now_time]<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/#How_to_Make_WordPress_display_the_current_time_in_a_place_using_a_shortcode\" title=\"How to Make WordPress display the current time in a place, using a shortcode\">How to Make WordPress display the current time in a place, using a shortcode<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/#How_to_display_it\" title=\"How to display it\">How to display it<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/#What_it_does\" title=\"What it does\">What it does<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/#Worked_for_You\" title=\"Worked for You?\">Worked for You?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/wordpress\/local-time-london-display-wordpress-website\/#Book_Silicon_Dales_to_work_on_your_WordPress\" title=\"Book Silicon Dales to work on your WordPress\">Book Silicon Dales to work on your WordPress<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Local_Time_in_London_is_now_time\"><\/span>Local Time in London is [now_time]<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The above tells you the current time in London&#8230; cool, huh?!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Make_WordPress_display_the_current_time_in_a_place_using_a_shortcode\"><\/span>How to Make WordPress display the current time in a place, using a shortcode<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This is a pretty cool little shortcode, which you might use to display times around the world&#8230; London, Paris, Milan, New York, Wherever-you-are&#8230;<\/p>\n<br>\r\n\t\t\t<script async custom-element=\"amp-gist\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ampproject.org\/v0\/amp-gist-0.1.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t\t\t<style amp-custom>\r\n\t\t\t  amp-gist {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 1rem;\r\n\t\t\t  }\r\n\t\t\t<\/style>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<amp-gist\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-gistid=\"c454a8030ec3862978fd1638a12e73a5\"\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tlayout=\"fixed-height\"\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\theight=\"10000\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/amp-gist><br>\n<p>The above code should be added to your theme&#8217;s functions.php file, or a helper plugin.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_display_it\"><\/span>How to display it<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Simply insert the relevant shortcode into your WordPress post or page, once you have saved the above function into your site&#8217;s active theme:<\/p>\n<p><code>now_time<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to wrap this in square brackets &#8220;[&#8221; and &#8220;]&#8221; in your post or page.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_it_does\"><\/span>What it does<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This code creates a little function which sets the timezone to be the one we want (in this case, Europe\/London), then uses PHP&#8217;s &#8220;date&#8221; function to ouput a formated &#8220;date&#8221; which is just the hours (one digit) minutes and AM or PM &#8211; in this case that is:<\/p>\n<p><code>$i = date('g:i A');<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.date.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PHP&#8217;s date function, here<\/a>. But suffice it to say, different characters relate to different displays. Have a play with this!<\/p>\n<p>This can be used to insert today&#8217;s date and time in a nice sentence too, for some dynamic content in your post. Like right now, in London, it is [now_time].<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Worked_for_You\"><\/span>Worked for You?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Leave a comment below if this helped you to insert the time in your WordPress website using a shortcode, or even if this only helped you to know what time it is, right now, in London!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Book_Silicon_Dales_to_work_on_your_WordPress\"><\/span>Book Silicon Dales to work on your WordPress<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Got a WordPress problem you just can&#8217;t fix? We can <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wordpress\/\">have our WordPress developers take a look. 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