Change the time zone in Codeigniter

Question

my project is hosted on shared server and i want to change the timezone to Asia/Kolkata. i have tried setting timezone using htaccess file but failed.

Answer 1

Do it This Way

$db['default'] = array(
'dsn'   => '',
'hostname' => 'localhost',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '',
'database' => 'ci',
'dbdriver' => 'mysqli',
'dbprefix' => '',
'pconnect' => FALSE,
'db_debug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
'cache_on' => FALSE,
'cachedir' => '',
'char_set' => 'utf8',
'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
'swap_pre' => '',
'encrypt' => FALSE,
'compress' => FALSE,
'stricton' => FALSE,
'failover' => array(),
'save_queries' => TRUE,
'date_default_timezone_set' => 'Asia/Kolkata'
);