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Asked: 2026-05-20T13:31:12+00:00

I am creating a social networking type website. The website is doing great in

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I am creating a social networking type website. The website is doing great in regards to traffic etc. I have come across a problem where there is a live news feed of peoples statuses and interactions. When I post something from here (Atlanta GA), is states it was posted under 1 minute ago. To people in Australia, it says it was posted 16hrs ago.

I am using a LAMP setup, with php 5. As far as the JQuery plug im using timeago to make the abbr’s look pretty.

I am not sure if I need to be setting the PHP timezone for users based on their location, or the DB timezone based on their location.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would have all of the dates be kept in something like UTC and do the comparisons based on that that. If you need to display a date just transform it from UTC into whatever timezone a specific user is in (either on your server or via JS).

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