John Davidson

Message:

I am using Laravel, and I have set the timezone "UTC" in the config/app.php file but I want to do the calculation in the "America/New York" timezone but if I use date_default_timezone_set() in any function then its scope will be for that particular function or it will be set for global scope

For e.g.

function xyz(){



date_default_timezone_set("America/New York");



}

If I set the date_default_timezone_set("America/New York"); inside this function, it's scope inside this function or globally for the whole application, if it's scope for whole the application how to make this scope inside the function only

Thanks

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My Answer:
The scope of the date_default_timezone_set() function is global for the entire application. Once you set the timezone using this function, it will apply to all date and time functions used throughout the application unless changed again.

If you want to set the timezone only for a specific function and not affect the rest of the application, you can use the DateTimeZone class to create a new DateTimeZone object with the desired timezone and pass it as an argument to the date and time functions within that specific function.

Here is an example:

php
function xyz(){
$timezone = new DateTimeZone("America/New_York");
$date = new DateTime("now", $timezone);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
}


In this example, the timezone "America/New_York" is only applied to the DateTime object created within the xyz() function and will not affect the rest of the application.