TutorialModifying Timezone Gravity Forms Date Field

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Do you want to modify the timezone of a Gravity Forms Date Field with a Merge Tag? For example to a African, Europen, Indian, American or other timezone? With the gwp_date_format Merge Tag Modifier from GravityWP – Advanced Merge Tags that’s very easy.

Using the gwp_date_format Merge Tag Modifier

The GravityWP – Advanced Merge Tags Add-On for Gravity Forms adds extra Merge Tag modifiers (and a lot of power). From the most common used functions like capitalize and trim to changing date formats. In this tutorial we show you how to use the gwp_date_format Merge Tag Modifier to modify the timezone, change the output to a date relative to the input date and show you how to output the result in different datetime formats.

The empty Merge Tag Modifier to change a Gravity Forms Date Field Timezone looks like this:

:gwp_date_format timezone=""

SETTINGS	INFO
timezone (optional, default is WordPress timezone setting)	For available timezones, see https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php. It is also possible to use an offset value: +0200

Changing Gravity Forms Date Field to different timezone

{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="Europe/Amsterdam"}

The example gwp_date_format Merge Tag Modifier as shown above needs only the Field ID of the datefield you want to show in a different timezone and a correct timezone.

See for a full list of available timezones the documentation on php.net or w3schools or click the accordion below to get examples per available timezone.

Example Merge Tag output different timezones

Timezone	Modifier gwp_date_format	Output
Timezone Europe/Amsterdam	{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="Europe/Amsterdam"}	2022-02-07 15:19:58
Timezone America/New_York	{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="America/New_York"}	2022-02-07 09:19:58
Timezone Europe/Moscow	{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="Europe/Moscow"}	2022-02-07 17:19:58
Timezone Asia/Kolkata	{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="Asia/Kolkata"}	2022-02-07 19:49:58
Timezone Etc/GMT	{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="Etc/GMT"}	2022-02-07 14:19:58
Timezone using offset value +0200	{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="+0200"}	2022-02-07 16:19:58

Using offset value

You can also use an offset value, like +0200 to set is two hours later than the GMT time.

{Date Field:1:gwp_date_format timezone="+0200"}

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