{"id":1348,"date":"2013-09-26T20:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2013-09-26T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:31:12","slug":"how-to-change-timezone-on-apache-webserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"How to change timezone on Apache Webserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Apache Webserver had not timezone correct. It is very important to have same time zone settings between platforms when migrating existing calendar applications based on timestamp and using mktime() calls in php scripts.<br \/>\nI can remenber problems when changing platforms from wampserver to ubuntu apache web server with webcalendar, mrbs open source &#8230;.<br \/>\n<strong>How to check which timezone in Linux ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>date +%Z<\/pre>\n<p>If I wanted timezone correct, I had to do some configuration on Apache Webserver. But how to do this?<br \/>\nTo change timezone on my Apache Webserver, I followed the next steps:<\/p>\n<pre> sudo nano \/etc\/php5\/apache2\/php.ini<\/pre>\n<p>Search for &#8220;date.timezone&#8221; under [Date] and modify : <\/p>\n<pre>date.timezone=\"Europe\/London\"<\/pre>\n<p>or to another timezone<\/p>\n<pre>date.timezone=UTC<\/pre>\n<p>Save the file and exit using <strong>CTRL+X<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<p>Restart apache2 to take effect<\/p>\n<pre> sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2 restart<\/pre>\n<p>You can use phpinfo(); to read date end time zone configuration too under date<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Apache Webserver had not timezone correct. It is very important to have same time zone settings between platforms when migrating existing calendar applications based on timestamp and using mktime() calls in php scripts.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,209,14],"tags":[152,222,223,224,225,226],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}