Title: timezone error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# timezone error

 *  [Paul Bearne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbearne/)
 * (@pbearne)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-error/)
 * Hi
 * Spotted a small problem if the the times zone is not set to a string
    The get_option(‘
   timezone_string’) returns and empty string if you set the timezone in general
   setting page to an UTC offset version a location
 *     ```
       147	$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
       148	date_default_timezone_set(get_option('timezone_string'));
       ```
   
 * Paul
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 * Last reply from: [Paul Bearne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbearne/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-error/)
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