How do I know the time and date of a location with PHP?

Question

I intend to store in a variable the current time of Portugal and in another variable the current date of Portugal.

How can I do?

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Lisbon');

$dia = date('Y-m-d'); // 2016-12-24
$hora = date('G:i'); // 16:29

DEMONSTRATION

Note that in the demonstration, the time is not right, but must be because of the ideone platform.

Answer 2

Configure the date_default_timezone_set for Europe/Lisbon and see working here in ideone:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Lisbon');

$date = time();
$date = date('Y-m-d', $date);
$hour = date('H:i:s', $date);
echo "Data: ".$date."\n";
echo "Hora: ".$hour;

You can check the Time Zones support list here in the documentation of PHP.