config/app.php timezone should be configurable based on .env var APP_TIMEZONE #6622
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…ctory, UTC in not configurable and becomes the APP_TIMEZONE. Which in our case, caused many problems. Since we use expirable tokens across multiple applications, it caused serious issues in our native APIs.
GrahamCampbell
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May 27, 2025
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This change has been proposed before, and is not wanted to be included by default. Changing the time-zone on the server side is almost always the wrong answer. There are rare exceptions, but UTC time-zone is very strongly recommended. Moreover, changing per environment is even more rare, still. You can still edit this config file in your own project if you have a use case where you feel this is the best option.
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Unless we override the timezone in config/app.php in our project directory, UTC in not configurable and becomes the APP_TIMEZONE. Which in our case, caused many problems. Since we use expirable tokens across multiple applications, it caused serious issues in our native APIs.