PHP Datetime issue on server

Question

I'm trying to convert time of a time zone to time for another time zone as provided in How can I easily convert dates from UTC via PHP? as provided below.

$dateTime = new DateTime("2009-04-01 15:36:13");
$dateTime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata'));
echo $dateTime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

While testing at localhost, this seems to work fine but on my development server, the page throws a 500 internal server error (if called through ajax) or the page simply breaks from that line of code onwards.

Both localhost and my development server is using PHP 5.3.5.

Is there any reason why this would not be working?

Please provide the error received from your error log. The code as provided is valid. — codemonkee, May 12 '12 at 19:35
the solution could be in this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10841960/php-class-datetime-not-found — Ailton Gomes Oliveira, Sep 19 '19 at 23:05

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '12 at 19:24

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Check the apache error log, that should contain the exact error you get. Everything else is just wild guessing :D

answered May 12 '12 at 19:24

Niko Sams

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Thanks I found it out in the error log. I had to specifically set my timezone `date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');`. – ptamzz May 12 '12 at 19:35
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Can also set your default timezone in your PHP.ini file [date.timezone](http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone) – codemonkee May 12 '12 at 19:39

PHP Datetime issue on server

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