Mrthdrb

You need to inject in your class constructor an instance of MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeDateTime and use that one.

Something like this:

protected $date;
public function __construct(
 ....
 MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeDateTime $date,
 ....
) 
 ....
 $this->date = $date;
 ....

Then, you can use in your class this:

$date = $this->date->gmtDate();

To get UTC date in Magento2 you should use MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeDateTime::gmtDate();

You should inject dependency on this class via construct and then use this function. See this class for more date/time related methods.

In your code sample you are retrieving UTC date, not store date.
To get date formatted according to the timezone of the current store, use
MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface::formatDate(); (again, by injecting dependency to construct)

You can easily get Current Store Date Time by injecting in your class constructor in instance of MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface and use that one to get the DateObject.

For example:

protected $timezone;
public function __construct(
 ....
 MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface $timezone,
 ....
) 
 ....
 $this->timezone = $timezone;
 ....

And then you can use it as followed:

$date = $this->timezone->formatDate();

For more information about different formats you can take a look at this article I wrote https://codeblog.experius.nl/magento-2-get-current-store-date-time/

We can set store timezone using observer with event "controller_action_predispatch"

Create events.xml in Mymodle/etc/frontend/events.xml folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
 <event name="controller_action_predispatch">
 <observer name="mymodule_timezone_set" instance="MyNamespaceMymoduleObserverSetStoreTimezoneObserver" />
 </event> </config>

In Observer folder create file SetStoreTimezoneObserver.php

<?php
namespace MyNamespaceMymoduleObserver;

use MagentoFrameworkEventObserverInterface;

class SetStoreTimezoneObserver implements ObserverInterface


 protected $_storeTime;
 protected $_storeManager;

 public function __construct(
 MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface $timezone,
 MagentoStoreModelStoreManagerInterface $storeManager
 )
 
 $this->_storeTime = $timezone;
 $this->_storeManager = $storeManager;
 $this->setStoreTimezone();
 

 /**
 * Retrieve store model instance
 *
 * @return MagentoStoreModelStore
 */
 public function getStore()
 
 return $this->_storeManager->getStore();
 

 /*
 * Set Store Timezone
 */
 public function setStoreTimezone()
 
 date_default_timezone_set(
 $this->_storeTime->getConfigTimezone('store', $this->getStore())
 );
 

 /**
 * Predispath admin action controller
 *
 * @param MagentoFrameworkEventObserver $observer
 * @return void
 * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.UnusedFormalParameter)
 */
 public function execute(MagentoFrameworkEventObserver $observer)
 
 $this->setStoreTimezone();
 

Now instead of getting "UTC" date, we get current store date using simple date("Y-m-d H:i:s") function.

Magento 2.x have context objects for different classes, if you are in a context of Block then context object can give you locale date object as follows:

/**
 * Locale Date/Timezone
 * @var MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface
 */
protected $_timezone;

/**
 * @param MagentoCatalogBlockProductContext $context
 * @param array $data
 */
public function __construct(
 MagentoCatalogBlockProductContext $context,
 array $data = []
) 
 $this->_timezone = $context->getLocaleDate();
 parent::__construct(
 $context,
 $data
 );

then you can use it like following:

$todayDate = $this->_timezone->date()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

This will avoid errors while executing di:compile command.

In my case, if i use this on my controller, ti doesn't work. I get the default locale date instead.

But if i use it on my block it works.


MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface $timezone
$todayDate = $this->_timezone->date()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');


To get the current date time of a particular store (other than current store in StoreManager):

Reference from MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezone::convertConfigTimeToUtc()

/** @var MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezoneInterface $timezone */
/** @var MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTimeTimezone $timezone */

$timezone = $this->timezone->getConfigTimezone(MagentoStoreModelScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORES, $storeId);
$currentDate = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone($timezone));
var_dump($currentDate->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

MagentoFrameworkStdlibDateTime will get you UTC date time, GMT date time or current store's date time.

Magento 2 sets UTC in app/bootstrap:

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

DateTime uses this PHP timezone setting by default.
Magento 2 will use internally UTC and it saves in MySQL in UTC also. Linux servers and MySQL servers usually are set to UTC timezone. The chain of the timezone settings on a server is not in scope of this topic.

Magento 2 will display on frontend the date in current store's timezone using locale resolver MagentoFrameworkLocaleResolver to get the current store timezone (e.g Europe/Bruxelles).