Timezone in php codeigniter

Question

It seems to be a very difficult task to set time zone based on user's current location in PHP.
I am finding it difficult to implement time zone dynamically in PHP, I am using codeigniter framework.
I found a git repository here https://github.com/tamaspap/timezones , but not able to integrate it with my codeigniter project.

Answer 1

You can set timezone just using date_default_timezone_set('timezone_name'); .The date_default_timezone_set() function sets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in the script.

For example :

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');

Sets timezone for America/Los_Angeles .

Answer 2

Placing this date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata'); on config.php above base url also works http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

application/config.php

<?php

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');