WordPress always sets time zone to UTC and native PHP functions will report and operate that in its environment.
To get local time (adjusted from UTC by WP’s timezone setting) you need to use WP’s functions, such as date_i18n() and others.
It’s confusing, but it’s much less problematic to do it WP way, than try to adjust its timezone mechanics.
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