Automatically Set a Local Timezone for Users In Laravel

Laravel Timezone is a great package by James Mills which sets users timezone in an application and show it based on their timezone.

This package listens for the \Illuminate\Auth\Events\Login event and will automatically set a timezone on your user model. This brillaint package uses the torann/geoip package which looks up the users location based on their IP address.

How to use?

You can show the time in users timezone using the below code

Timezone::convertToLocal($post->created_at)

Even you can use with blade directive like This

@displayDate($post->created_at)
// 4th Feb 2018 1:40:am

Even with this format

@displayDate($post->created_at, 'Y-m-d g:i', true)
// 2019-05-04 4:32 New York, America

You can also convert the localized date back to UTC, pretty good when relive a  date for reports filters:

Timezone::convertFromLocal($request->get('publish_at'));

You may please download the package here

https://github.com/jamesmills/laravel-timezone