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timezone_name_get

timezone_name_get($object)

Returns the name of the time zone: the name from the database (Europe/Prague), the offset (+02:00) or the abbreviation (CET), depending on how the zone was created. It is the same as $object->getName().

Parameters

$object – a DateTimeZone object.

Examples

echo timezone_name_get(timezone_open("Europe/Prague")); // Europe/Prague
echo timezone_name_get(timezone_open("+02:00")); // +02:00
echo timezone_name_get(timezone_open("CET")); // CET
// the name stays as it was entered
echo timezone_name_get(timezone_open("europe/prague")); // europe/prague
// the zone of a DateTime object
echo timezone_name_get(date_timezone_get(date_create("2026-10-05", timezone_open("UTC")))); // UTC
// the same with a method
echo timezone_open("Asia/Tokyo")->getName(); // Asia/Tokyo

Things to watch out for

It does not convert the name to a uniform form. Compare a zone from user input with the list from timezone_identifiers_list(), where the names are in their exact form.
For a fixed offset it returns the text +02:00, not the name of a place.
The current abbreviation (CET in winter, CEST in summer) is output by format("T") of a DateTime object.