How to set Laravel Carbon timezone for timestamps?

Question

I have a project which is primarily based in CET region. I set CET in config/app.php, but all pivot timestamps in the base are stored in UTC time?

How can I set "global" timezone for timestamps?

i made this test:

<?php
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
echo "<br />".date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());

$mytime = Carbon\Carbon::now();
echo "<br />".$mytime->toDateTimeString();
?>

and here's the result:

The current server timezone is: CET
06/09/2016 12:06:04 pm
2016-06-09 11:06:04

tnx Y

Answer 1

in the AppServiceProvider.php you can add the php functionality to alter the timestamp for the whole project

public function boot()
{
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Aden');
}