Quicker way to convert UTC to EST and add 3 days to it
<p>I have the following code, it works but is there a "cleaner" way, maybe less code?</p>

<pre><code>$today = new DateTime();
$utc_today = date('Y-m-d', $today-&gt;format('U'));
$new_date = new DateTime($utc_today, new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
$new_date-&gt;add(new DateInterval('P3D'));
echo $new_date-&gt;format('m-d-Y');
</code></pre>
