How do I set default timezone in cakephp?

Question

So I have a system that is mostly finished, just ironing out some final bugs. We have an issue that the program seems to be permanently set in the New York timezone.

I have this line of code in both core.php and bootstrap.php:

date_default_timezone_set("Australia/Melbourne");

But the system keeps reporting that it is in America/NewYork.

Can anyone help me set the timezone to Australia Melbourne?

Answer 1

In the config/core.php file of the app folder try the following with single quotes:

date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Melbourne');