Detailed explanation of date.timezone setting in php.ini

date.timezone Set the default date.timezone of php5 to utc. Changing it to date.timezone = PRC can solve the problem of eight hours difference in time. However, I have been looking at the official documentation of php for a long time and I still can’t find this parameter.

Although I know that this parameter means "People's Republic of China", but there is no such parameter in the official documents. There are only parameters such as Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Hong_Kong, etc. Why can it be set to RPC here? Can anyone give me some advice on this parameter? Where exactly? It seems that there is indeed no such parameter in the official documents, I am confused. Generally, it is set to Asia/Shanghai

I have been using xampp for a short time. Today, in order to correct the php acquisition function, it is to obtain the server time.

Since php5.1.0, the date.timezone option has been added to php.ini, which is turned off by default. The displayed time is all Greenwich Mean Time, which is exactly 8 hours different from Beijing time.

Method found online:

Modify the php.ini file, search for ;date.timezone = , remove the semicolon in front and add the time zone after "=".

For example: Asia/Chongqing (Chongqing), Asia/Shanghai (Shanghai), Asia/Urumqi (Urumqi), Asia/Macao (Macau), Asia/Hong_Kong (Hong Kong), Asia/Taipei (Taipei), PRC

Example

;date.timezone =

Change to:

date.timezone = Asia/Shanghai

The method is very simple. But under xampp, changing the php/php.ini file has no effect. Later, I searched online and found out that damn xampp, put php.ini under apache/bin and modify the php.ini in it to be useful.