How to get time in particular timezone in Laravel?

Question

I am unable to get the time for a particular timezone using Laravel 8. I have tried the following:

Carbon::now(new \DateTimeZone('Indian/Mauritius'))

I have also tried to modify the timezone in file config\app.php as follows:

'timezone' => 'Indian/Mauritius'

It is always returning me the UTC time. How to get the time using Carbon in that specific timezone?

Edits: issue solved, the problem was because of a serialization issue, check here

Answer 1

This works for me:

$dateNow = \Carbon\Carbon::now();
$dateNow->setTimezone('Indian/Mauritius');