How to set time zone in codeigniter

Question

I am working in a php project using codeigniter. Please advise me what is the global way to set time zone for php and mysql . In which file I can set this. I want to set it without php.ini and .htaccess file.

currently I am using this before every entry -:

date_default_timezone_set("Asia/bhubaneswar");
$time =  Date('Y-m-d h:i:s');

Answer 1

Hii,

Add this line inside the main index.php of codeigniter folder

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/bhubaneswar');