How to Change OpenCart Timezone

This tutorial covers how to change the timezone in OpenCart as well as change time of the database.

Go to system/startup.php and find following lines of code:

if (!ini_get('date.timezone')) {
	date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
}

Replace with following lines of code by changing to your timezone

date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Sydney');

Synchronize PHP and Database Timezone

The query we use to set database timezone if you are super admin is below:

SET time_zone='offset';

But everyone has no super admin access so need to change in the code level. For that go to system/library/db/mysqli.php if you are using MySQLi and add code below after $this->connection->query(“SET SQL_MODE = ””);

$dt = new \DateTime();
$this->connection->query("SET time_zone='" . $dt->format('P') . "';");

With these changes your timezone in Opencart are changed.

Let us know if you find any issues, thanks a lot.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. hello,
    I read a few of the blogs related to changing timezones. but I wanted to know if this is the same for what I need related to launching scheduled sales and promotions… I want to launch a sale beginning 11-22-2019 (which should be mean 12:01 am). being in CA (pst) that means someone in NY should see it before anyone else. but when I do it, people in CA and HI can see the sale at the same time. any idea what I need to change or where to change so that the sale is only visible according to the users’ website timezone.

    Thanks

    • There is no Opencart module yet to show the special price or discount price as per the timezone.
      So, for now, we have to show all at once.

  2. hello,
    I read a few of the blogs related to changing timezones. but I wanted to know if this is the same for what I need related to launching scheduled sales and promotions… I want to launch a sale beginning 11-22-2019 (which should be mean 12:01 am). being in CA (pst) that means someone in NY should see it before anyone else. but when I do it, people in CA and HI can see the sale at the same time. any idea what I need to change or where to change so that the sale is only visible according to the users’ website timezone.

    Thanks

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