laravel timezone

How to change your Laravel’s timezone like a boss 😎

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As a developer, whether you are working on a new project or an existing Laravel application, it can sometimes be important for the application’s timezone to match the current location’s timezone.

Please notice that laravel has a default timezone which is set to UTC. Hence you might want to change it to your local timezone, if yes please follow the below options and procedures.

First Option

open the config directory from your laravel application.

Edit the app.php file next and the timezone value from UTC to the desired timezone from available timezones.

‘timezone’ => ‘Africa/Nairobi’,

Second Option

Make a modification in the .env file to specify the timezone as follows:

APP_TIMEZONE=’Africa/Nairobi’

Then, add the following in the app.php file:

‘timezone’ => env(‘APP_TIMEZONE’, ‘UTC’),

This involves making some changes to the app.php file.

Once those changes have been made, it is important to run the following command to clear the config settings stored in the cache.

php artisan config:clear

Congrats you have changed your default timezone :)

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