Phpmailer using smtp with Gmail not working - connection timing out

Question

I\'ve looked into the following links:

phpmailer send gmail smtp timeout

send email using Gmail SMTP server through PHP Mailer

http://uly.me/phpmaile

Answer 1

Add

date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');

before including the autoloader. SMTP Needs to have the timezone set which was my issue.