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Time and server time zones
The servers are on time because synchronization is performed automatically 1 time a day. For this purpose, we use
http://www.metas.ch/metasweb/Fachbereiche/Zeit_Frequenz;internal&action=setlang&lang=en&
The timezone is set to UTC, however the PHP date functions are built to be able to take this into account according to the desired timezone.
You can use the following code in your PHP scripts by assigning the timezone to the TZ environment variable:
http://www.metas.ch/metasweb/Fachbereiche/Zeit_Frequenz;internal&action=setlang&lang=en&
The timezone is set to UTC, however the PHP date functions are built to be able to take this into account according to the desired timezone.
You can use the following code in your PHP scripts by assigning the timezone to the TZ environment variable:
<?php
echo "Original Time: ". date("H:i:s")."<br>";
putenv("TZ=US/Eastern");
echo "New Time: ". date("h:i:s")."<br>";
?>
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