Laravel Carbon returns incorrect time

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I have an issue with my Laravel app that I'm developing, the returns time is incorrect, I did specify the timezone on both config/app.php and php.ini file, and I did clear the cache on Laravel using the following commands:

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan view:clear
php artisan config:cache

Also, I restarted my PHP service after changing the timezone in php.ini file. I'm using XAMPP as a server.

Please note: the only correct time is by using pure php function!

Anyone can help me in resolving this issue?

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1 Answers

The time is correct: Z at the end of the string means GMT (Zulu timezone).

When a Carbon instance is output in a JSON response, it's always converted in the ISO-8601 string and given in GMT timezone, as it's the standard and very recommended way to exchange date information between systems (and so in a JSON API). If you try to pass new Date('2020-08-20T06:46:34.407Z') in a browser, you will see that it's automatically converted by the browser into the user timezone.

If you try:

Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s.u')

You will see it uses the timezone you chose. And you also make it appear in the output:

Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s.u e')

So a system/browser in a different timezone won't mess it up.

Still the best move is to work with UTC on your server side and only use the Asia/Riyadh at the very last moment when you want to display the date on a particular user you know is in this timezone.

I explained it more in details here: https://medium.com/@kylekatarnls/always-use-utc-dates-and-times-8a8200ca3164

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