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Asked: 2026-05-13T17:24:46+00:00

I have just realised if I add a particular record to my MySQL database

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I have just realised if I add a particular record to my MySQL database – it will have a date/time of the server and not the particular user and where they are located which means my search function by date is useless! As they will not be able to search by when they have added it in their timezone rather when it was added in the servers timezone.

Is there a way in Codeigniter to globally set time and date specific to a users location (maybe using their IP) and every time I call date() or time() that users timezone is used.

What I am actually asking for is
probably how to make my application
dependent on each users timezone?

Maybe its better to store each users timezone in their profile and have a standard time (servers time) and then convert the time to for each user?

Thanks all

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think the easiest way is define a timezone for internal data storage (your server’s time zone or UTC) and convert the time according to the user’s time zone when outputting it.

    I don’t know CodeIgniter so I can’t point you to the right functions. One prominent library that is timezone aware is Zend_Date: Working with Timezones I have not worked with these functions yet but they look promising.

    However, once you know the user’s time zone, it’s not difficult to put together an own function that adds/substracts the offset when outputting dates and/or times.

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