How can I modify php date in bitnami?

Question

I have read other StachOverflow answers and forums about php and date but they did not help me. I am using bitnami in a Azure server and use date in the shell I get

Wed May 4 10:25:16 UTC 2016

. But with php date("d-m-y/H:i:s") function y get

04-05-16/03:18:51

I have changed the timezone from date.timezone = America/Los_Angeles to date.timezone = Europe/Paris in php.ini file that is in

opt/bitnami/php/etc

The file is modified I have permission to do it and if I do cat php.ini | grep date.timezone I get ;

http://php.net/date.timezone

date.timezone = "Europe/Paris"

I have restarted apache with

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

But the time is still wrong. Besides, if I use phpinfo(), date.timezone is also wrong: America/Los_Angeles

Do I need to restart something more? What more I have to do to get the correct time?

From phpinfo() you can check which ini file is loaded. The one loaded may be not the one you edited. — Pavel Petrov, May 04 '16 at 08:43
What is the difference between Configuration File (php.ini) Path and Loaded Configuration File? http://prntscr.com/b02tik — Adrián Rodriguez, May 04 '16 at 08:59
The first one is where the to look for ini file, the second is the actually the configuration is read from. — Pavel Petrov, May 04 '16 at 09:33
So I modified the right file? I can't find the first one the path does not exists. — Adrián Rodriguez, May 04 '16 at 09:40
Well, you should know which file you edited? :) If it's located where Loaded Configuration File points it's the correct. — Pavel Petrov, May 04 '16 at 09:45
check this: http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone — Pavel Petrov, May 04 '16 at 09:54
I edited opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini I said it in the question. That is the one pointed in Loaded Configuration File. Why is not working then? — Adrián Rodriguez, May 04 '16 at 09:59
From documentation: The default timezone used by all date/time functions. Prior to PHP 5.4.0, this would only work if the TZ environment variable was not set — Pavel Petrov, May 04 '16 at 10:05
What's the PHP version you are using? And can you check whether you have removed the `;` in the front of the `date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); `? — Gary Liu, May 05 '16 at 01:38
I am using PHP 5.5.30. Sorry I did not understand you about the `;` — Adrián Rodriguez, May 05 '16 at 13:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '16 at 08:52

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Try date_default_timezone_set() in the beginning of your script: date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

Hope it helps.

answered May 04 '16 at 08:52

Ren

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Now the time is 2 hours more, any idea? I have read that using the date_default_timezone_set() was worse option than modifying the php.ini file because maybe you have to run that function in many places, what do you think? – Adrián Rodriguez May 04 '16 at 09:03
Yes, you are right, this was just for fix. Try using echo ini_get('date.timezone') to print out current setup timezone. If it reads wrong, perhaps you edited a wrong ini file. – Ren May 04 '16 at 09:15
That is what I was talking about with @Pavel Petrov but following phpinfo() output I am not editing the wrong file. – Adrián Rodriguez May 04 '16 at 10:01
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I've a webserver in Canada, used by Brasilian users. Ren answer is the right one. On my main include fle (included in all pages), I have: date_default_timezone_set('America/Sao_Paulo'); so you can do the same with Europe Paris. You must also use something like $ret = setlocale(LC_ALL, "pt_BR.utf-8"); (in my case Portuges from Brasil) in order that string functions work with the language you want. – Peter May 05 '16 at 01:04

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