In this comprehensive guide, we’ll teach you how to change the timezone for Laravel. I’ll demonstrate how to set the time zone in Carbon Laravel. You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for a Carbon Laravel example of a configured timezone. How to change the time zone in Carbon Laravel, step by step. Okay, let’s get into the specifics.

This example works with versions of Laravel 6, Laravel 7, Laravel 8, Laravel 9, and Laravel 10.

To change the time zone, Laravel Carbon has the setTimezone() and tz() methods. I’ll give you two straightforward examples with results.

Example 1: using setTimezone()

DemoController.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;
  
class DemoController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $time = Carbon::now()->setTimezone("Asia/Kolkata");
          
        dd($time);         
    }
}

OutPut:

2023-05-23 18:06:42.217710 Asia/Kolkata (+05:30)

Example 2: using tz()

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;
  
class DemoController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $time = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2023-05-23 05:01:01')->tz("Asia/Kolkata");
          
        dd($time);         
    }
}

OutPut:

2023-05-23 10:31:01.0 Asia/Kolkata (+05:30)