Just copy this.

http://snipt.net/rebelidealist/thinking-sphinx-to-support-all-character-including-chinese-korean-etc/

I tested it with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.

Please note that the configuration was repeated with the development & production environment.

For me, the most annoying aspect of China’s firewall was not that facebook and twitter was blocked. It is refreshing to take a break from  these social networks. However, the consequence of facebook and twitter being blocked is debilitating for most modern sites trying to reach people in PRC.

If your site using any facebook or twitter plugins such as fb connect, fb comments, fb like , and twitter share widget you site may be slow to load or not load at all. Several high profile site such as techcrunch take forever to load partially, not because their content is block by China, but they are are utilizing fb plugins.

What you can do about this?

1. Protest in Tiananmen square.

2. Modify your site so the the fb & twitter js to load asycronously so it doesn’t affect the loading of your other contents.

3. Or don’t load the plugins for ips from PRC.

2) Create a Date Time object with the original time zone and the time desired.

$date_time = new DateTime('5-1-2011 11:30 PM', $original_time_zone);
//another example using the current system time
$date_time = new DateTime('now', $original_time_zone);


3) Convert to the new time zone using Date Time Object’s setTimeZone method.

$date_time->setTimezone($new_time_zone); //GMT time zone object


4) That’s it! You can also output the converted date time object to any format that php date() accepts.

//returns the date time in mysql time format
return $date_time->format('H:i:s');