How to tell if a timezone observes daylight saving at any time of the year?

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I’ve found a method which works using PHP’s DateTimezone class (PHP 5.2+)

function timezoneDoesDST($tzId) {
    $tz = new DateTimeZone($tzId);
    $trans = $tz->getTransitions();
    return ((count($trans) && $trans[count($trans) - 1]['ts'] > time()));
}

or, if you’re running PHP 5.3+

function timezoneDoesDST($tzId) {
    $tz = new DateTimeZone($tzId);
    return count($tz->getTransitions(time())) > 0;
}

The getTransitions() function gives you information about each time the offset changes for a timezone. This includes historical data (Brisbane had daylight savings in 1916.. who knew?), so this function checks if there’s an offset change in the future or not.

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