I need to set the right timezone.
But I don’t understand if there is any difference between the PHP timezone (date_default_timezone_set()) and the Linux setting.
Suppose I run a new AWS instance from N.Virginia. The default timezone of that server should be UTC-05:00
Does this mean that I have to set UTC-05:00 inside my PHP ini config?
If I set UTC in the php.ini on a N. Virginia server does this will mean that php will convert automatically the date from UTC-05:00 (time of the server) to UTC
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Answer
Actually, in Laravel, you can set your timezone from env.php file or directly from configapp.php for example, in configapp.php file you’ll find something like this:
'timezone' => env('APP_TIMEZONE') ?: 'UTC',
In this case, if you have an env.php environment file, then it’ll look for APP_TIMEZONE which could be something like following:
APP_TIMEZONE=Asia/Dhaka
If you don’t have an env.php file then you may replace the UTC part from 'timezone' => env('APP_TIMEZONE') ?: 'UTC' in the configapp.php file directly. You may find all timezones from here, look for yours.