How to get current date and time with respect to Time Zone in Codeigniter

Question

When I run the following code in codeigniter, it returns incorrect time and date for the India location. Please let me the solution.

'date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time());
echo $date;'

Answer 1

try this

$now = new DateTime();
$now->setTimezone(new DateTimezone('Asia/Kolkata'));
echo $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');