How to set time zone in codeigniter?

Question

I am working in a php project using codeigniter. Please advise me what is the global way to set time zone for php and mysql . In which file I can set this. I want to set it

Answer 1

you can try this:

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');

In application/config.php OR application/autoload.php

There is look like this:

It's working fine for me, i think this is the best way to define DEFAULT TIMEZONE in codeignitor.