title: Laravel Setting and Fetching time in UTC
body: <p>I have set <code>'timezone' =&gt; 'UTC'</code> in app.php ... our database stores datetime in <code>UTC</code> ..We do not have access to database config... so we have to make changes from application end..
  Currently its storing value just <code>2014-09-11 00:00:00</code> what ever i select from <code>calender</code>..ideally iam trying to fix this </p>
  
  <p>when i insert date from <code>singapore UTC+8</code>  it should store as </p>
  
  <pre><code>'enterdate+8' 2014-09-11 08:00:00 in database.. 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>similarly when i insert date from <code>japan utc+9</code> it should store</p>
  
  <pre><code>'enterdate+9' 2014-09-11 09:00:00 in database
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when a user search <code>2014-09-11 08:00:00</code> it should be converted to localtime ...something like <code>2014-09-11 00:00:00</code></p>
  
  <p>anyways to fix this in laravel 4 ?</p>