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Asked 1 month ago by MercurialHunter953

Why do datetime values display an hour behind in Yajra DataTables for Laravel 11?

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I'm working on a Laravel 11 application using yajra/datatables. Although the datetimes in the database are correct, when they are displayed on the frontend they appear one hour behind. My application timezone in app.php is set to "Europe/Berlin". I've tried various solutions without success. I noticed that adding an editColumn callback in my DataTables fixes the display for the updated_at column, but I prefer not to modify every DataTable instance. I've included an example of my DataTable file and the data route from the controller below.

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<?php namespace App\DataTables; use App\Helpers\Helper; use App\Models\Tool; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder as QueryBuilder; use Yajra\DataTables\EloquentDataTable; use Yajra\DataTables\Html\Builder as HtmlBuilder; use Yajra\DataTables\Html\Column; use Yajra\DataTables\Services\DataTable; class PeopleDataTable extends DataTable { public function dataTable(QueryBuilder $query): EloquentDataTable { return (new EloquentDataTable($query))->setRowId('id'); } public function query(Tool $model): QueryBuilder { return $model->newQuery(); } public function html(): HtmlBuilder { return $this->builder() ->setTableId('people-table') ->parameters(Helper::datatablesLanguageParameters()) ->columns($this->getColumns()) ->minifiedAjax() ->selectStyleSingle() ->orderBy(0, 'asc') ->ajax(route('people.data')); } public function getColumns(): array { return [ Column::make('id'), ['name' => 'name', 'data' => 'name', 'title' => __('text.name')], ['name' => 'department', 'data' => 'department', 'title' => __('text.department')], ['name' => 'phone', 'data' => 'phone', 'title' => __('text.phone')], ['name' => 'email', 'data' => 'email', 'title' => __('text.email')], ['name' => 'updated_at', 'data' => 'updated_at', 'title' => __('text.updated_at')], ['name' => 'actions', 'data' => 'actions', 'title' => __('text.actions')], ]; } protected function filename(): string { return 'People_'.date('YmdHis'); } }

And here is the data route in the controller:

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/** * Provides data in json for the indexTableView endpoint. * * @return JsonResponse * @throws Exception */ function data() { $people = Person::query() ->select( [ 'people.id', 'people.name', 'people.department', 'people.phone', 'people.email', 'people.created_at', 'people.updated_at', 'rfids.rfid_unique_id', 'rfids.status', ] ) ->leftJoin('rfids', 'rfids.id', '=', 'people.rfid_id'); return (new DataTables) ->eloquent($people) ->addColumn('status', function (Person $person) { return HtmlService::statusHtml($person); }) ->addColumn('actions', function (Person $person) { return HtmlService::generateActions($person, 'person'); }) ->rawColumns(['status', 'actions']) ->toJson(); }

EDIT 1: When I add the following, the datetime displays correctly:

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->editColumn('updated_at', function (Person $person) { return $person->updated_at; })

How can I globally disable this behavior so that I don't need to add an editColumn callback for every DataTable?

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Answer by StackOverflowTychoAI Agent 1 month ago

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The issue you're encountering is due to Eloquent's default behavior of always serializing timestamp columns (like updated_at) in UTC. Even though your application timezone is set to "Europe/Berlin", Laravel converts these columns to UTC when serializing them (which is used by yajra/datatables). This is intentional per the Laravel documentation.

To change this globally so that you don't have to use an editColumn callback on every DataTable, you can override the serializeDate method on your base model (or on the specific model if you prefer). For example:

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<?php namespace App\Models; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use DateTimeInterface; use DateTimeZone; class BaseModel extends Model { /** * Prepare a date for array / JSON serialization. */ protected function serializeDate(DateTimeInterface $date): string { // Convert the date to the application's timezone return $date ->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone(config('app.timezone'))) ->format($this->getDateFormat()); } }

Then have your models extend this BaseModel instead of the standard Eloquent Model. This way, Eloquent will serialize your timestamp values using your application's timezone (Europe/Berlin) instead of UTC.

Note: While storing timestamps in UTC is a common best practice for consistency, if you prefer to have them displayed in your local timezone without additional formatting in your DataTables, overriding serializeDate as shown above is the way to go.

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