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Yuray
Yuray

Reputation: 817

How to set Laravel Carbon timezone for timestamps?

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

Upvotes: 24

Views: 120942

Answers (7)

Bhargav Raviya
Bhargav Raviya

Reputation: 399

First Step change on config/app.php

'timezone' => 'UTC',

change to

'timezone' => 'Europe/Berlin',

create a function using Carbon

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP', $product->created_at)
                    ->timezone(config('app.timezone'))
                    ->toDateTimeString()

Upvotes: -2

Ashwani Garg
Ashwani Garg

Reputation: 1527

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');
}

Upvotes: 15

GONG
GONG

Reputation: 4026

You can achieve it with accessor

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
}

Upvotes: 22

Adam Pery
Adam Pery

Reputation: 2102

Update file config/app.php

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

Upvotes: 39

Hisham Shami
Hisham Shami

Reputation: 467

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');
}

Upvotes: 22

Yuray
Yuray

Reputation: 817

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

PHP Timezones

Timezones in Laravel 4

Upvotes: 2

thefallen
thefallen

Reputation: 9749

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

Upvotes: 16

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