How to set Laravel Carbon timezone for timestamps?

Question

I have a project which is primarily based in CET region. I set CET in config/app.php, but all pivot timestamps in the base are stored in UTC time?

How can I set "global" timezone for timestamps?

i made this test:

<?php
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
echo "<br />".date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());

$mytime = Carbon\Carbon::now();
echo "<br />".$mytime->toDateTimeString();
?>

and here's the result:

The current server timezone is: CET
06/09/2016 12:06:04 pm
2016-06-09 11:06:04

tnx Y

Solution 1

Update file config/app.php

Eg: 'timezone' => 'Asia/Jerusalem' instead of 'timezone' => 'UTC'

Solution 2

in the AppServiceProvider.php you can add the php functionality to alter the timestamp for the whole project

public function boot()
{
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Aden');
}

Solution 3

You can achieve it with accessor

public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
{
    return Carbon::createFromTimestamp(strtotime($value))
        ->timezone(Config::get('app.timezone'))
        ->toDateTimeString(); //remove this one if u want to return Carbon object
}

Solution 4

Carbon uses the default DateTime PHP object, so use the date_default_timezone_set() function, for example: date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

Solution 5

If you are using Laravel Carbon TimeStamps, then you have to change timezone in App/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file

// App/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

public function boot()
{
    date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta');
}

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Comments

[PaulH]

Not an answer to the OP, but if you are looking for how to change the timezone of e.g. zulu time input, it can be done like this Carbon\Carbon::parse('2021-01-28T23:45:00.000000Z')->setTime‌​zone('Europe/Brussel‌​s')->format('Y-m-d H:i') => "2021-01-29 00:45"

[Yevgeniy Afanasyev]

It is an php.ini file setting named date.timezone = Australia/Melbourne. Thanks for pointing the function.

[cespon]

On Laravel, a best practice is modifiying the timezoneoption from the config/app.php file.

[BlueC]

That is an accessor not a mutator, but nonetheless I agree the best practice here (especially if your application spans timezones or is consumed in a timezone affected by DST changes) is to always save dates in UTC and just change the timezone when the date is displayed, not when it is stored.

[Brec]

Thanks, this was the solution to my issue, as time zone was dependent on the user logged into the application.