'PHP time() method not giving timestamp of my timezone

I have a php code which inserts the timestamp in the database for every insert.

I use: time() method to get the time Stamp. but when I send this time Stamp to the mobile client it shows some other time.

How do I get the timestamp for my current time zone, Asia/Calcutta.

Here is my PHP code:

 date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta');
 $timeStamp = time();
 //insert into notification table
 $sql = "insert into notifications (senderUsername,notificationText,timeStamp) values ('$senderUsername','$resultTextValue','$timeStamp')";

This store the value in the DB as 1420829504

This when parsed on my Android client it shows as January 9th 2015, 18:51:44 but I except it as January 10th 2015, 00:21:44

I have already deployed my application on the Play Store, so the only thing I can play with is my server side code.

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Solution 1:[1]

You can set your time zone on a per project basis for php like so.

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta');

Solution 2:[2]

    date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
    $time = time();
    $actual_time = date('M d Y, 00:H:i',$time);

use $actual_time in you sql database

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Solution Source
Solution 1 cmorrissey
Solution 2 Randhir Singh

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