Title: Internal timezone conversion
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Internal timezone conversion

 *  Resolved [dwightlathan77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwightlathan77/)
 * (@dwightlathan77)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-timezone-conversion/)
 * Hello,
 * Thank you for a great plugin!
 * I’m having issues with timezone conversion in a shared environment.
    My host 
   has set their system to an offset of -6 so Mysql is storing date_recorded, date_updated,
   etc. fields in Denver time from the plugin.
 * Would you consider using the get_option(‘gmt_offset’) and date_default_timezone_set()
   functions to control the offset or explicitly store it in UTC time if that would
   help.
 * Right now MySQL-> SELECT NOW() returns ‘2013-08-26 16:04:07’, which is the date
   values.
    my local time is ‘2013-08-26 18:04:07’ UTC time is ‘2013-08-26 22:04:
   07’
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-timezone-conversion/#post-4068989)
 * You web host may have the server timezone set to their location, but it’s usually
   possible to override that setting in your installation, either though a PHP configuration
   setting on your control panel or though a php.ini or .htaccess file in your web
   root. That way the timestamps will match your local time zone.
 * Are you suggesting I provide an option to store timestamps in UTC?

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-timezone-conversion/#post-4068989)
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