Is there an easy way to change timezone only on view laravel? - php

Question

So I already save any date on my database with UTC, and I can get it just like $data->created_at or $data->blocked_at. So in my config, I set timezone to UTC, then i want to convert when on view from UTC to UTC+7 or another timezone.
Is there an easy way to convert timezone i want when on view for all dates?
I'm still using Laravel 5.8
Edit:
I'm using the answer but implement that on my base model, like this:
public function getDateConverter($key){
if(strtotime($this->{$key})){
$date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $this->{$key});
$date->setTimezone(env("APP_TIMEZONE_VIEW"));
return $date->toDateTimeString();
} else {
return null;
}
}
And I will call the column name like this $data->getDateConverter("created_at");

Answer 1

You can use Carbon which is included in the core
$timestamp = '2014-02-06 16:34:00';
$date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp, 'Europe/Stockholm');
$date->setTimezone('UTC');
Europe/Stockholm is your default timezone and UTC is what you want to set
If you want to convert it from a model when displaying, try Accessors
public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
{
$date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $value, 'Europe/Stockholm');
$date->setTimezone('UTC');
return $date->toDateTimeString();
}

Answer 2

well in case if you want to chnage your timezone when inserting the time then
Use 'timezone' => 'Asia/Kolkata'. in your config/app.php
By this you can set your applications default timezone..

Answer 3

you can use add this function to your model
public function setViewDateFormat( $date ) {
return Carbon::parse( $date ,'Africa/Cairo')->format( 'j F Y' );
}
Then call it on any date attribute
public function getFormattedCreatedAtAttribute() {
return ( $this->created_at ) ? $this->setViewDateFormat( $this->created_at ) : null;
}
This way you can set all dates timezone and format.