How to Set default timezone in PHP?
Asked : Nov 17
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I am making a website where I need to save the date in the PHP date() function.
<?php
$finalize_at = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
?>Is there any way to change the timezone for PHP or set a timezone change from somewhere in php.ini and make these values available for PHP.
Much appreciate your support.
Nov 17
You can do it easily just by the following two lines of PHP.
1: Method (PHP file)
<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Bangkok");
echo date_default_timezone_get();
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Paris");
echo date_default_timezone_get();
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
?>
2: Method for php.ini file
This is what helped set default timezone settings:
1) Go to your phpinfo() page and search for Loaded Configuration File and open the php.ini the file mentioned under that section.
2) Change the default timezone settings by adding your new timezone by modifying this line: date.timezone=Asia/Kolkata.
3) Save the php.ini file and stop the Apache server.
4) Restart the Apache server. The timezone settings should now be modified.
answered Nov 26
Follow the steps given below on how to set timezone in php.ini
Step 1: Create a php.ini file under your website folder.
Step 2: Change the default timezone settings by adding your new timezone.
For Example date.timezone=Asia/Kolkata
Step 3: Save the php.ini file.
answered Dec 30
PHP relies on the date.timezone value for some date/time functions executed by PHP-based applications. Sometimes you even get an error message on your web server logs that clearly indicates this necessity.
Fortunately, this is easy to accomplish and we will show you how. For this guide, we will be using CentOS 6 with root privileges.
Open the php.ini file
On CentOS, the php.ini file is located at the /etc directory.
sudo vi /etc/php.iniDepending on the installed version of the PHP version, you will find a [Date] section like the following. If it is not there, just add a line with the "date.timezone = Your/Timezone" function.
[Date]; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions; http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone
date.timezone =
Uncomment the date.timezone function and set its value to the timezone you need. In this case, we will use America/New_York. To see a list of supported timezones, refer to php.net
[Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions; http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone date.timezone = America/New_York
Now, save and exit the php.ini file.
Restart Apache webserver
In order for the changes to take effect, you need to restart the Apache webserver:
sudo service httpd restart
Congratulations, you have set the timezone in php.ini file.
answered Dec 30