php shows one hour early

Question

php settings in php.ini:

date.timezone = Asia/Jerusalem.

My Linux server (Ubuntu) shows the correct time:

Answer 1

You solve it by setting the timezone explicitly in your PHP scripts. You can do this with date_default_timezone_set():

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Jerusalem');

Here is the list of PHP supported timezones.

You may also want to try a test script calling date_default_timezone_get() to see what it's actually set to to verify that this is in fact the problem.

List of Supported Timezones