I need to change the timezone in my Yii2 application to "Europe/Berlin". I've tried to configure it but it doesn't seem to work for me. How can i achieve this?
Running this in my PHP application returns “UTC”.
echo date_default_timezone_get()Yii2 uses UTC as default timezone if the timezone is not configured in your php.ini or in your application configuration file. There are two ways to solve this issue:
1 Solution) You could modify you php.ini and set:
date.timezone=Europe/BerlinIf your are using php-fpm don't forget to restart the fpm service by running this command: “/etc/init.d/php-fpm restart”. In that way the changes in your php.ini file will be permitted.
2 Solution) You could set the timezone directly in your Yii2 configuration file. This will also overwrite the timezone set in the php.ini.
$config = [
'timeZone' => 'London/Berlin',
...
]