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 why can't i pass a variable into date_default_timezo

 		7/12/2011 11:46:55 PM
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$myTimeZONE_var=$_SESSION['setting_timezone_session']; // I saved the TimeZone from a table into a Session and then saved it in this local variable
echo $myTimeZONE_var; //this shows exactly the folowwing: 'America/New_York'
date_default_timezone_set($myTimeZONEvar);

// I get the following error:

// Error type 8

// Error description date_default_timezone_set() [function.date-default-timezone-set]: Timezone ID ''America/New_York'' is invalid
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 		bertoruiz author 7/13/2011



$myTimeZONE_var=$_SESSION['setting_timezone_session']; // I saved the TimeZone from a table into a Session and then saved it in this local variable
echo $myTimeZONE_var; //this shows exactly the folowwing: 'America/New_York'
date_default_timezone_set($myTimeZONEvar);

// I get the following error:

// Error type 8

// Error description date_default_timezone_set() [function.date-default-timezone-set]: Timezone ID ''America/New_York'' is invalid


I figured it out...I was passing an additional set of qoutes around the string into the date_default_timezone_set() function. This is wrong as qoutes are implicitly applied when passing a variable into the function. I should have just passed America/New_York into the variable instead of passing 'America/New_York'.