Change Timezone in Lumen or Laravel 5

Question

I am using Lumen framework. How can I change Timezone to Europe/Paris CEST?

I added a varaible in my .env file:

APP_TIMEZONE=Europe/Pari         


        

Answer 1

I modify it in the .env APP_TIMEZONE.

For Colombia: APP_TIMEZONE = America / Bogota also for paris like this: APP_TIMEZONE = Europe / Paris

Source: https://www.php.net/manual/es/timezones.europe.php

Answer 2

In Lumen's .env file, specify the timezones. For India, it would be like:

APP_TIMEZONE = 'Asia/Calcutta'
DB_TIMEZONE = '+05:30'

Answer 3

In my case (reading a date from a MySQL db in a Lumen 5.1 project) the only solution that worked is using Carbon to set timezone of variables:

    $carbonDate = new Carbon($dateFromDBInUTC);
    $carbonDate->timezone = 'America/New_York';
    return $carbonDate->toDayDateTimeString(); // or $carbonDate->toDateTimeString() for ISO format

Using DB_TIMEZONE=-05:00 in the .env file almost worked but does not handle DST changes.

Using the APP_TIMEZONE=America/New_York in the .env file had no effect on a timezone value retrieved in a Lumen 5.1 webapp from a MySQL database, but it works in Lavarel 5.1.

Also Lumen didn't read at all the [lumen_project]/config/app.php file that I created (it didn't complain when I put a syntax error there).

Using date_default_timezone_set didn't work either.

Answer 4

Go to config -> app.php and change 'timezone' => 'Asia/Jakarta',

(this is my timezone)

Answer 5

For me the app.php was here /vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/app.php but I also could change it from the .env file where it can be set to any of the values listed here (PHP original documentation here).

Answer 6

You can set your app time zone by configuring app.php file in config folder .

To change time zone , modify the value of timezone in app.php file.

This is written in this section

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 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.
|

For me i am using Asia/Dhaka as my application time zone.

Here is the appropriate syntax :

'timezone' => 'Asia/Dhaka'

list of timezones for PHP 5