default timezone in PHP

Question

What is default timezone in php? I checked it in the php.ini which shows the following with the timezone is left blank:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone         


        

Answer 1

PHP 7 Answer

Modern versions of PHP (>= 5.4.0) use the following steps until a default timezone is found:

1. Reading the timezone set using the date_default_timezone_set() function (if any)

2. Reading the value of the date.timezone ini option (if set)

3. If none of the above succeed, the default timezone will be UTC.

The TZ environment variable is no longer used.

Source: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-get.php