Changed the timezone but still getting UTC

Question

I have changed the timezone for my laravel app to be Africa\Cairo, and i changed this in the app.php file

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Timezone
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the default timezone for your application, which
| will be used by the PHP date and date-time functions. We have gone
| ahead and set this to a sensible default for you out of the box.
|
*/

'timezone'        => 'Africa/Cairo',

but when i check in prodduction the time zone using Carbon::now(), i get the timezone is UTC

How can i set the timezone in Carbon

Answer 1

make sure you clear the cache, write this in your terminal (in the project directory):

php artisan config:cache

then start the project again to see the changes