Ubuntu, PHP: How to set the time?

Question

PHP

How to set the time correctly? I'm sort of confused...

****@****Projects:~$ date
Wed. dec. 10 13:00:01 FET 2014
****@****Projects:~$ php -a
Interactive shell
php > echo date('dmY H:i:s');
10.12.2014 15:00:05 php
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Answer 1

In php.ini, explicitly set your timezone.
You can update / set the time zone in the system How to change time zone settings from the command line
Follow the link for an example of how to reconfigure and how to manually specify the time zone for the system