I'm trying to change the default PHP timezone to Asia/Calcutta
by accessing the /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
file and changing
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone =
to
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = "Asia/Calcutta"
However, when I try to view current timezone under phpinfo()
, the timezone follows the Europe/Berlin
timezone.
I have tried stopping and restarting the Apache server, but that didn't seem to have changed the settings.
Is there something I'm missing in the process?
PS: I'm using PHP 5.6.8 currently under XAMPP.
To change the timezone for your website, go to your Site Tools > Devs > PHP Manager. Check a full list of the available timezones at this URL.
The date_default_timezone_get() function returns the default timezone used by all date/time functions in the script.
The default timezone for PHP is UTC regardless of your server's timezone. This is the timezone used by all PHP date/time functions in your scripts. See PHP's list of supported timezones to find the names of all possible timezones you can use for the date.
I tried all the other possible solutions posted, but none of them helped. This is what helped me save my timezone settings:
1) Go to your phpinfo()
page and search for Loaded Configuration File
and open the php.ini
file mentioned under that section.
2) Change the default timezone settings by adding your new timezone by modifying this line: date.timezone=Asia/Kolkata
.
3) Save the php.ini
file and stop the Apache server.
4) Restart the Apache server. The timezone settings should now be modified.
You can change it in the code without touching the ini file, at the beginning of your code add:
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta')
You are changing the wrong file. The file /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
is used by cli - command line interface. Don't forget to restart your web-server after you update the right one: sudo service apache2 restart
or sudo service php5-fpm restart
File locations for different OS:
OS -> Location
windows(With Xampp Installation) -> /xampp/php/php.in
Mac OSX -> /private/etc/php.ini
Linux -> /etc/php.ini
-> /usr/bin/php5/bin/php.ini
-> /etc/php/php.ini
-> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
I had the same problem and discovered that there are two date.timezone statements in php.ini in my version of XAMPP out of the box. The first statement one is commented out, but the second one is set to Europe/Berlin. So you if you edit your php.ini and search for timezone and logically uncomment the first statement with your time zone, the second statement overrides that back to Europe/Berlin.
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