PHP ignoring my date.timezone?

Question

time() keeps producing the same timestamp , even though in my php.ini I keep toggling between

date.timezone = "Asia/Irkutsk"

and

date.timezone = "Europe/Belgrade"

phpinfo():

date/time support   enabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version   2012.3
Timezone Database   internal
Default timezone    Asia/Irkutsk 

date/time support   enabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version   2012.3
Timezone Database   internal
Default timezone    Europe/Belgrade 

Timestamps stays the same. Howcome?

Answer 1

You made the wrong assumption.

Unix timestamps are always in UTC. No exception. Changing the timezone does not change the exact moment of the epoch (1st of january, 1970), so the number of seconds since then will always be 'correct'.

Answer 2

您需要在php.ini中进行更改后重新启动PHP

Answer 3

I was having this problem and spoke to my host, they explained that any timezone setting in php.ini is ignored and that the .htaccess file must be changed as follows;

Add this to .htaccess

php_value date.timezone "Europe/London"

Then display using

echo date('d-m-Y H:i');