Date-field doesn't save local time

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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I have a date-field in my blueprint with time.
I create a page and i want to set the date to the current date and time. The result for me is that the time saved in the content-txt-file is two hours earlier than it actually is. 10:00 saves 8:00.

Anyone an idea of how to fix this?

'date' => date('Y-m-d H:i'),

(also tested with the default value of the date-field)

date:
  label: Date
  type: date
  default: now
  time: true

thanks!

2

Is your servers date/timezone properly configured? Im not sure where you are in the world but I think it defaults to GMT or UTC, which could be 2 hours behind where you are. You can add the following line to php.ini to see if that helps (obviously amend it for where you are):

date.timezone = "US/Central"

To see what PHP thinks the current date and time is, you can do this in a template:

<?= (date("F d, Y h:i:s A", time() )) ?>
3

Be careful, you can have several php.ini on your system.

For instance on my Ubuntu Linux server:

/etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
/etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
…

4

thanks for the info!