Title: WordPress Timezone Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Timezone Problems

 *  [singpolyma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/singpolyma/)
 * (@singpolyma)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-timezone-problems-1/)
 * Hello 🙂
    I am working on setting up a self-hosted WordPress blog, and am running
   into some problems:
 * 1) Changing the timezone setting does not change the displayed time of existing
   posts/comments
    2) When I use O in a time format (ie, the timezone offset) or
   any other timezone-displaying format it shows my server timezone instead of my
   set timezone 3) When I use U to output a unix timestamp it outputs in such a 
   way that it is off from UTC by the difference between my set timestamp and my
   server timestamp
 * Some thoughts by others are found here ([http://gregcerveny.com/20061129/wordpress-times-time-zones-and-daylight-savings/](http://gregcerveny.com/20061129/wordpress-times-time-zones-and-daylight-savings/))
   and more importantly here: ([http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070125/4178/](http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070125/4178/))

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 *  Thread Starter [singpolyma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/singpolyma/)
 * (@singpolyma)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-timezone-problems-1/#post-516439)
 * Adding this line to the top of my template fixes the problem (or so it seems 
   anyway):
 * `<?php echo (int)date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York'); ?>`
 * However I have to remember to keep this code in synch with my settings, and certainly
   cannot distribute a template with this line in it…

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 * [time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/time/)
 * [timestamp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/timestamp/)
 * [timezone](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/timezone/)
 * [unix](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unix/)

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-timezone-problems-1/#post-516439)
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