Change Timezone in Lumen or Laravel 5

Question

I am using Lumen framework. How can I change Timezone to Europe/Paris CEST?

I added a varaible in my .env file:

APP_TIMEZONE=Europe/Pari         


        

Answer 1

Use php time zones from php manual Php time zones

For example mine i changed from the UTC value in config/app.php with

'timezone' => 'Africa/Nairobi',