PHP strftime outputs wrong format despite correct timezone

Question

I configured my timezone to Europe/Paris in php.ini. When executing date_default_timezone_get() I do get the correct value.

Then, I expect strftime('%x', date()) to output something like 16 novembre 2018 which is the French format. But instead, I get 11/16/2018 which looks like the US format.

Any idea why?

Answer 1

The time zone has no effect on how dates and times are presented, for that you need to set the locale. There are no standards for locale names, but fortunately PHP's setlocale() function will take multiple locale names, stopping at the first successful one.

// just a few common name formats
setlocale(LC_TIME, ["fr_FR.utf8", "fr_FR@euro", "fr_UTF8", "fr_FR", "french"]);
echo strftime("%d %B %Y", time());

Answer 2

I tried:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_utf8');


echo strftime("%d %B %Y", time());

and got:

16 novembre 2018

Answer 3

after setting the timezone to Europe/Paris, Use echo date('d-M-Y') and it will display your desired time. it worked for me