How to set local timezone in laravel

Question

Is there a way to set local timezone in laravel?

In config/app.php

'timezone' => 'UTC',

• What should be added so that timezone value above uses local timezone?

After some research, stumbled upon the following PHP way of dealing with it:

$userTimezone = Auth::user()->timezone;

date_default_timezone_set($userTimezone);

// and change the configuration so they match

Config::set('app.timezone', $userTimezone)

But, Is there an elegant solution for this other than converting the timezone using the above code.

Cheers

Answer 1

Don't do that. Never set the global Laravel timezone to user's timezone. You'll face endless problems.

Choose you application timezone, set the Laravel config to that timezone and never change it.

Instead, when you need to show a date in user's timezone do something like

User::find(1)->foobazed_at->timezone(Auth::user()->timezone);

To control which model columns are automatically converted to Carbon\Carbon instances, add the following method to your model file:

public function getDates()
{
    return array('foobazed_at', static::CREATED_AT, static::UPDATED_AT, static::DELETED_AT);
}