Carbon now showing same date and time in all timezone.

Hello, I am trying to get the current time in my local Timezone using carbon package but I came to an issue that Carbon::now(); is showing same timezone if I try to change the timezone. My global config timezone is in default UTC 'timezone' => 'UTC', . It is a serious issue, what is happening I don't know. Can anyone help me out?

use Carbon\Carbon;

Route::get('/carbon', function () {
    return response()->json([
        "timezonetest1" => Carbon::now('GMT+8'),
        "utc" => Carbon::now('UTC'),
        "now" => Carbon::now(),
        "london" => now('Europe/London'),
        "kolkata" => now()->tz('Asia/Kolkata'),
        "Chicago" => Carbon::now()->setTimezone('America/Chicago'),
    ], 200);
});

My Json Response Output

{
  "timezonetest1": "2023-05-17T05:22:20.789508Z",
  "utc": "2023-05-17T05:22:20.789518Z",
  "now": "2023-05-17T05:22:20.789523Z",
  "london": "2023-05-17T05:22:20.789540Z",
  "kolkata": "2023-05-17T05:22:20.789546Z",
  "Chicago": "2023-05-17T05:22:20.789555Z"
}

Snapey

2 years ago

Best Answer

Level 122

Because you are always dealing with the same Carbon instance.

When these are converted to json, they all end up with whatever timezone was applied last.

One option is to extract the time as a string before moving to the next value, eg

    "timezonetest1" => Carbon::now('GMT+8')->toIso8601String(),
    "utc" => Carbon::now('UTC')->toIso8601String(),
    "now" => Carbon::now()->toIso8601String(),
    "london" => now('Europe/London')->toIso8601String(),
    "kolkata" => now()->tz('Asia/Kolkata')->toIso8601String(),
    "Chicago" => Carbon::now()->setTimezone('America/Chicago')->toIso8601String(),

gives

{
  "timezonetest1":"2023-05-17T21:03:30+08:00",
  "utc":"2023-05-17T13:03:30+00:00",
  "now":"2023-05-17T13:03:30+00:00",
  "london":"2023-05-17T14:03:30+01:00",
  "kolkata":"2023-05-17T18:33:30+05:30",
  "Chicago":"2023-05-17T08:03:30-05:00"
}

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Pranam

2 years ago

Level 1

@Snapey Thank You I did exactly the same like yours or another one is Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString() and it is working as expected. Thanks again Sir.

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