Why is PHP returning a date that doesn't match the system date?

Question

PHP

After the time change in Russia, on the server where the Europe/Moscow timezones were everywhere, the time did not change. But after installing tzdate, the system time was fixed, I write in the console date gives the correct time. I write in php -r "echo date('Ymd H:i:s');" I get an hour more.
Reinstalling php does not help.
What do you advise to do.

Answer 1

another php.ini works through the console (/etc/php5/cli/) there set the default zone Europe/Moscow

Answer 2

php.net/manual/ru/datetime.configuration.php

Answer 3

PHP version, what system?
which outputs:

<?php

echo "Default TZ: ", date_default_timezone_get();

$r = new \ReflectionExtension('date');
echo $r->info();

Answer 4

Just struggled with this problem myself (Debian 6, php 5.3.29). Here is my solution (as root):

apt-get install php-pear php5-dev build-essential
pecl install timezonedb
echo "extension=timezonedb.so" > /etc/php5/conf.d/timezonedb.ini

After that, you need to restart Apache
I really hope that it helps.