How to convert server time to local time in Laravel?

Question

I would like to print the time in local time in Laravel. If the user create a post it will display the created time on the server. How can I display it in local time ?

Answer 1

Server time should stick with UTC timezone

In front end, you can use moment.js to render the correct local timezone. I tested this in moment version 2.22.2.

Simply add Z to the datetime value and moment will render the date to user's local time zone

moment(dateTimeValue + ' Z'); 

Answer 2

Try this:

$dt = new DateTime($posts->updated_at);
$tz = new DateTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata'); // or whatever zone you're after

$dt->setTimezone($tz);
echo $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Answer 3

Go to app.php page in Config folder and change this

'timezone' => 'UTC',

to

'timezone' => 'addYourTimeZoneHere',

reference https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/configuration

find your timezone http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Answer 4

Comment the timezone settings in app.php page

//'timezone' => 'UTC',

Answer 5

Best option is to do this with Javascript, get client's timezone and then convert server time to cleint's accordingly.

Please refer https://stackoverflow.com/a/1837243/4007628

Answer 6

Try this method, I think this is what you want:

$localTime = $object->created_at->timezone($this->auth->user()->timezone);

Here, $this->auth->user()->timezone will return current user's timezone, and timezone() will convert created_at to to user's local time.

If you want to get all visitors timezone (not just logged in users), you can you package for Laravel similar to laravel-geoip. It will generate $visitor['timezone'] for you which you can use like this:

$localTime = $object->created_at->timezone($visitor['timezone']);