Codeigniter timezone mysql settings

Question

Just realised WHY my site is now showing all datetime variables as -1 hr... I\'m using Codeigniter for the first time! (Never had this problem before)

So, I have inc

Answer 1

I like the solution proposed by Kumar however, I didn't need to set this globally, only when showing dates stored in UTC time in my db.

In my api model I have the following function.

  public function setDBTimeOffset(){
    $dt = new DateTime();
    $offset = $dt->format("P");
    $result = $this->db->query("SET time_zone='$offset';");
    return $result;
  } # END FUNCTION setDBTimeOffset

From my controller, I call the following first.

  $this->api->setDBTimeOffset();

Followed by the call to the function that queries the db. For example, I am fetching some user history.

  $data["viewData"]["allHistory"] = $this->api->getUserHistory("ALL", 0, 10000);

When I display the output, the dates are in my timezone. I hope this helps someone, somewhere in time (couldn't resist).