Converting a user inputed time and date to GMT time

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Published on 2010-04-08T06:52:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 6:53 UTC
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If someone in the GMT + 10 time zone inputs a date (e.g: 2010-08-01 23:09:33) which I then convert to a TIMESTAMP (strtotime()), how do I convert that to GMT time?

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