How to set Laravel Carbon timezone for timestamps?

Question

I have a project which is primarily based in CET region. I set CET in config/app.php, but all pivot timestamps in the base are stored in UTC time?

How can I set "global" timezone for timestamps?

i made this test:

<?php
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
echo "<br />".date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());

$mytime = Carbon\Carbon::now();
echo "<br />".$mytime->toDateTimeString();
?>

and here's the result:

The current server timezone is: CET
06/09/2016 12:06:04 pm
2016-06-09 11:06:04

tnx Y

Answer 1

Carbon uses the default DateTime PHP object, so use the date_default_timezone_set() function, for example: date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

Answer 2

in the AppServiceProvider.php you can add the php functionality to alter the timestamp for the whole project

public function boot()
{
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Aden');
}

Answer 3

Update file config/app.php

Eg: 'timezone' => 'Asia/Jerusalem' instead of 'timezone' => 'UTC'

Answer 4

You can achieve it with mutators

public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
{

return Carbon::createFromTimestamp(strtotime($value))
    ->timezone(Config::get('app.timezone'))
    ->toDateTimeString(); //remove this one if u want to return Carbon object
}

Answer 5

It looks like solution is to use not "CET" but one of explicit timezones, for example: "Europe\Minsk"

PHP Timezones

Timezones in Laravel 4

Answer 6

If you are using Laravel Carbon TimeStamps, then you have to change timezone in App/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file

// App/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

public function boot()
{
    date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta');
}